Dell Inspiron 8500 Review

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Dell Inspiron 8500
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tersh's Review of Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop

13th Feb 2004

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    0.5 stars
  • Quality
    3.5 stars
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Erratic dvd player, technical support is, like other reviewers have stated, an utter farce. AVOID...


General Comments

My Dell Inspiron 8500 was delivered surprisingly rapidly in november 2003. At christmas the dvd player started becoming erratic in its operation. I sent it back to Dell and it came back 3 weeks !! later. Unfortunately they had changed the XP Pro to XP home and omitted to install many other programmes and also the dvd decoder, so no dvd. And quality control had signed it off as ok. They offered to send an engineer, but if they can't fix it in 3 weeks what hope? I was advised to sue by trading standards. Dell will not respond to my emails. AVOID unless you like grief. In my opinion Dell UK technical support is way below par!

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  • ronniebangalore on 23rd Dec 2008

    I have the same problem an almost dead battery. I understand from the previous owner that they had always used the laptop plugged in. Is that the reason why the battery is failing? In 10 mins a fully charged battery discharges while working. I have 512 RAM, I want to add 1GB RAM to thisin the next slot, will it work as 1.5GB after that? The system otherwise is good and no complaints.