are dell notebooks any good?

Question

pros...... cons...Pleaze

Answer 1

The Apple Imacs are really cool ... two of my good friends have them and swear by them.

... at my house, we have two Dell laptops and a Toshiba Satellite that is a couple years older. One Dell laptop is down with a bad virus, the other is kinda slowish, and the Toshiba is a good machine ... I bought it from Best Buy on the day after Thanksgiving 2003 (about $800, but had $400 worth of rebates on it, so it ended up being about $400), and got the 3-year warranty. Good thing, because the hard-drive and DVD-Rom crapped out about 2-1/2 years in ... Best Buy hooked it back up, good as new.

Dell is overrated as a brand ... the only good thing about them is that you can open up a credit account to get one if you're broke. But you can do that at the Apple Store, too.

Answer 2

Well since you said pros and cons well the good thing about Dell Notebooks is that they come upgraded with all the niks and crannies you want good video card good sound card and HD space. Cons well they will give you the notebook with the OS already installed and you can not change the OS to another one that you may like such as switching through XP Pro and MS Vista for example, also you are just purchasing the name that's all.

Answer 3

According to Consumer Reports (November 2007), Dell laptops rate first or second in all four categories: 14" budget, 15.4" budget, 15.4 workhorse, and 17" workhorse. In terms of features, all four models rated "excellent"; no other brand can claim that distinction. Battery life is very good; only the Acer 15.4" workhorse model did any better.

The capsule report said Dells are "more expandable than other brands" and "you can configure your system without the trial and promotional software included by many other brands." You can get a Dell with the Linux OS if you want.

Tech support was third in the list (Apple was first, Lenovo/IBM was second). Dell's repair history is about the same as any other brand - no significant difference.

In the December issue of CR, Dell laptops were recommended in all four categories as good choices for Christmas gifts. I have a Dell desktop and am very pleased with it.

Answer 4

Yes currently I am replying on one. If you are looking for a cheap and budget laptop, get a Dell. Beware, these aren't extremely portable and are more fragile then most computers. Dell has good deals as far as RAM, Gigabytes, and extras. If you are looking for something that is really nice and expensive, Dell isn't the answer. You can probably get a nice Dell for about 1000. They also look nice and work with media well, however, Macs work with media the best. So if your planning on doing photo edits, get a mac. Otherwise, I have had zero issues with my laptop and it works great all the time and shows no signs of wear and tear after 2 years.

Answer 5

Dells make a pretty good laptop, and as long as you get the warranty with them, you'll be fine no matter what happens. I had a friend who started having problems with her laptop(after she dropped it) and had them come out to fix it twice before they just gave her another one. Cool thing about that was her laptop was an older single-core processor and her new one was a dual-core.
Other than Dell, HP and Toshiba made good laptops as well. I'm a Toshiba owner myself and I've never had any problems with them. All three companies seem to have a pretty good customer support site online as well, specially if you ever need to download drivers again.
Stay away from Acer, I've heard too many horror stories about their technical and customer support. And when you're buying a laptop, technical and customer support is key. Pay the extra money for that warranty, too many things on a laptop can go bad that you can't replace with off the shelf parts.

Answer 6

not really..... they look good and have the same programming as other notebooks, but in general there's shoddy workmanship.

In the same price range, i'd go for a toshiba or a sony (in that order) because I've had dell's that broke literally weekly, but my 1st toshiba (which is still in use just given away) is nearly 5 years old and broke exactly once due to windows software not the hardware. and my current one has never broken despite being brutalized (and recently thrown on the ground in an incident)

next in line i'd go for an HP which is probably on par with the sony/toshiba, i just don't like them as much

Answer 7

Dell= Don't Expect Long Life

they are pieces of crap and overheat. they have so many problems, its not worth the hassle. My friend baught a NEW dell laptop and it just died. the hard drive fried itself for no reason and he had to get it fixed through dell. it wiped everything out.
I recommend Toshiba, Sony Vios, or HP.

Answer 8

My dell Latitude has lasted me a good 5 years, and still loads without losing a beat. Go for it.

Answer 9

Yep! I have one.

I won't lie, their hardware has given me some problems, but when my disk drive stopped working last year (two years after I bought it) I had a new one in literally two days. Free. Their warranty and customer service is all excellent and the thing is tough as nails. Honestly, I'm surprised that mine has lasted so long considering the abuse I've subjected it to.

Answer 10

Had the cheapest Dell laptop on the block for nearly two years with no real probs and bought me daughter one too. Solicited testemonial,lol (Inspiron 1300 btw)