written by petegoodman on 18/03/2005
Good Points
Cheap
Blue/Silver
Reasonable Qualty Screen
Bad Points
Rubbish Graphics Card
Heats up a lot
Bad Battery Life
Not Good Specs
Dell (Good at Desktops, not notebooks)
Intel(AMD 64 more future proof)
General Comments
Don't buy the Dell Inspiron 1150, you will regret it after a year!!!
I recieved this laptop, very well packed, nice big box(which may explain the £50.00 Delivery Cost) and for the first few months was very impressed.
Then I started to get more adventurous. Often when playing DVD's the film will become very jumpy and will make your viewing poor.
Games - If you want to play games on this machine, you can't, well not anything worth playing. I recently brought GTA Vice City, it will only run on a 640 X 400 resolution because of the rubbish graphics card.
Future - The Celeron and Pentium 4 processors are now more then 5 years old and therefore are not worth buying-you are much better to buy a Centrino or a AMD 64.
Dell - When using desktop computers, Dell are outstanding but their laptops aren't even worth mentioning.
I have had my Inspiron 1150 a year now and I am now looking to buy a new laptop.
Hope this is useful