Dell Inspiron 8500 Review

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Dell Inspiron 8500
1.9 stars
Average rating for this product is: 1.9 out of 5

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Midwestjack's Review of Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop

25th Sep 2008

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Screen Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Ease of Use
    4 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Battery Life
    1.5 stars
Good Points

Sturdy, good build quality, reliable, decent display, with 2GB of RAM/64MB graphics card and 7200rpm drive this computer is sufficiently capable using Windows XP.


Bad Points

Poor battery life, heats up to a noticeable temperature, and overall it's heavy as hell.


General Comments

I have owned this laptop for over 5 years. No joke. In that time I have upgraded the RAM and upgraded the HD - both to improve performance.

Recently, after 5 years that is, I have had to replace a burned out graphics card (I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did frankly), a dead battery and fried AC adapter. The dead battery was really my fault however, as I've used this thing almost exclusively while plugged in and the battery lost 90% of it's max charge a long long time ago.

If you're looking for a desktop replacement computer for anything other than high-end graphics work and/or high-end gaming, then this laptop will do.

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