Dell Vostro 1000 With 3-Year Warranty + Windows (Brand New)
A compact system, designed with a black finish and chrome accents, the Dell
Vostro 1000 gives you the essential mobility that will get you going places.
System type
Vostro 1000 Laptop
Processor
AMD Sempron 3600+ 2.00GHz
RAM installed
1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x 512MB)
Hard drive capacity
80GB 5,400rpm SATA
Optical drive
8x DVD+/-RW For DVD Writing
Graphics
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Hypermemory
Windows version
Vista Home Basic
Warranty
3 year on-site from Dell
Screen size
15.4"
Screen resolution
WXGA (1280 x 800)
Battery
Minimum: 6-Cell 53WHr Li-Ion
Standard features of all Vostro
1000 systems
Soundcard
Sigmatel STAC9200 codec
Speakers
2x 8-ohm speakers
Network Card
Integrated 10/100Mbps network
adapter
Card Reader
3-in-1 media memory card reader SD/SDIO,
MMC
Modem
V.92 56K MDC
Wireless
Internal PCI-e Mini-Card WLAN
USB 2.0 ports
4x USB2.0
Bundled preinstalled software
includes
Microsoft Works 8.0 DVD Writing
software Various trials for ISP's and antivirus
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in customer reviews are the personal opinions
of the reviewers and do not necessarily reflect
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Review by
Rob Beard from
Torquay on
23/09/2008 18:54:46
Rating:
5 /10
Not great hardware for the money
A friend of mine bought one of these Dell Vostro 1000 notebooks during a Dell promotion a few months back (actually it was from a Dell reseller and I was about £230 including VAT and delivery).
The overall build quality isn't bad, it's solid enough for basic home use but it really is SLOW, I mean like wading through treacle slow.
The screen is pretty good and the hard drive is ample enough for the basics and the battery lasts around 1 to 2 hours but you'd really need to invest in more memory (at least 2GB) to get any real decent speed out of the system.
It's a real shame really. If it had a Turion Processor and a bit more memory it would probably run much better.
Even worse you can't use the 'downgrade' rights on Vista Home Basic to downgrade to XP Home so you're pretty much stuck with Vista unless you buy a new XP Home license.
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