joshwaller (baboba)

The Vostro 1510 from Dell.com/uk - £316 including VAT and Postage (with £50 off, plus a further 10% off). It's very dark in colour, and not very shiney from this angle. After the faulty advent I think I've finally got a bargain of a laptop to replace the Inspiron 1300 . The laptop scores well in Vista, although is let down slightly by the graphics, and 3D graphics scores. Aero is supported, but scores would be higher if a dedicated graphics card was chosen. The Vista experience scores are: CPU: 4.8, RAM: 4.8, GFX: 3.5, 3D GFX: 3.5, HD: 5.1 - giving an overall score of 3.5. The Dell Vostro 1510 features a 1.8ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD (WD), Vista Home Premium, DVDRW (slot loading TEAC), 15.4" widescreen, SD/MMC/MS/Pro memory card reader, 4 USB ports, WIFI (plus physical on/off switch), Firewire, a shiney sparkly black lid, a catchless closing mechanism (magnets? weighted shut?), a nice blue circuit board with easy access to the CPU and memory. Some pros and cons, s...

Advent 9117 17" widescreen laptop, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 1.46ghz (x2), 1gb ram, 120gb hd, DVDRW, Windows Vista Home Premium, 1440x900 glossy screen, 3x USB 2.0, TV-out, VGA, Headphone out, mic in, 10/100 Mbit LAN, Wireless lan b/g, multi memory card reader ...some tests run here . At £225 refurb with 12 month warranty I couldn't resist upgrading my old Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop . Update: this turned out to have a faulty DVD drive, so I had to send this back for a refund. I'll continue to use the Dell for now.

I've had this Dell Inspiron 1300 (in the middle) for a week or two now, as a replacement for the dead Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 that Toshiba wanted £520 to repair! The Dell cost me £336 inc vat and delivery, and I also bought another 512mb from the excellent Crucial for £36. The Inspiron has a 1.5ghz Celeron-M (1mb cache version of the Pentium-M), 768mb DDR2 ram, DVDRW/CDRW, 15.4" widescreen TFT, built in wireless, and a long life battery. Flipping bargain if you ask me. I've also managed to sell the dead Toshiba on ebay for £139! Panoramic courtesty of the cute little Kodak Easyshare V570 . The Dell has a nice keyboard that is easy (and enjoyable) to touch-type on. The base and screen plastics feel solid and robust, and the built in wifi works well through-out the house. Added this new page to the site: The Animals of Sefton Park, Liverpool .