Did I get a crap deal on this laptop? Is Dell Inspiron 6400 reliable? I see all these other laptops for wayyy cheaper and I am in a Film and TV production course, but I use the school computers so I hope that I did not make a really dumb decision. I know I could have gotten a laptop that did what i want for way less money but if the laptop I got is really good, then I guess I won't mind too much
2006-12-25 04:56:03 · 4 answers · asked by Mackenzie 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
well you figure the average cost of a laptop now a days is 1500. I got a Sony Viao brand new for 1200.00... so you are saying that printer, and camera was another 1000.00? I think that was a horrible deal
2006-12-25 05:05:04 · answer #1 · answered by just_acali_girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi right now the inspiron 6400 starts from $629 at dell.com so I would believe you bought your laptop a long time ago. I believe Dell is reliable as they also provide a minimum of 1-year warranty either at-home or mail-in service. You said you spent about $2500, I believe you did not get a good deal. With $2500 today you can get a XPS which is much faster, has a bigger screen, more RAM, hard disk, etc
The thing about laptops is that even if you spend $3000 on a high-end best laptop from Dell like XPS today, in 4-5 years you can get the same one or better for probably $1500 or less. I don't think it's worth it to spend that much unless you really need a lot of computer speed for games, graphics design, etc
2006-12-25 05:18:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My 6400 ran at 3 GHz with out any difficulty utilising the inventory cooler and voltage. I left it at 2.66GHz. What motherboard and cooler do you have? Are you one hundred% beneficial the cooler is totally put in? in case you have an tremendously low-end motherboard, you in all threat won't have the skill to overclock. On my P4M800PRO-M, any overclocking in any respect became hopeless (2.33GHz would not even load the OS!). On my MSI Neo3, the proper same CPU and heatsink, fan, reminiscence, and CPU overclocked easily.
2016-10-28 08:24:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first off you overpayed seriously its ok but you coulda gotten more
im a windows person but you said TV and film production course you shoulda gotten a mac for that
2006-12-25 04:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋