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| Screen Quality | 8.6/10  |
|---|---|
| Battery Life | 4.4/10 |
| Ease of Use | 8.8/10 |
| Value for Money | 7.8/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 6.6/10 |
| Overall Rating | 7.2/10  |
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Full review by
henko
on 9th Aug 2007
User Rating : 9
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Good Points: Fast, good sound card and speakers, big hard drive (100Gb, which was special when it came out in 2004) good working Bluetooth. 3.4 Ghz Intel processor. Very nice videocard. I had mine fitted with the optional ATI 9800 Radeon Pro Mobility, which gives gaming a nicer experience. Overall, super specs. Easy restorable software DELL Quickset. The superb DELL help desk has helped me very well a few times. (I thought it was broken but as it turned out I had done something stupid in the BIOS-settings)
Bad Points: Very heavy. (5kilo's) The cooling fans are very noisy. Battery life is far to short.
General comments: I bought the DELL Inspiron 9100 despite the bad points. When I was looking for a laptop I wanted one which was powerful enough to run Cubase SX3 and VST plugins and perform live music with it on stage.
So I did not use it for office or working on the train or travel with it.
Now, a few years later, it's already outdated but I don't care. I even recently expanded it's memory up to 2Gb for better performance. It was worth the money.
The sound quality is still much better than what I've come across lately, especially the subwoofer which is integrated in the battery, gives this extra bass-sound which most of the laptops out there don't have.
Since the first day I've bought it, the Inspiron 9100 has never let me down. I has never been broken or anything. But the battery is poor. I've bought a surrogate one on Ebay with larger capacity but even then it consumes it all up in about 1,5 hour.
It's a big fast monster if you ask me.:-)
Replacement? That would definitely be one the new XPS series notebooks from DELL.
henko's review and ratings | 286 words
Review by
hacastro
on 12th Jan 2007
User Rating : 1
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Unfortunately, my Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop has broken down with major problems 5 times. Dell will not replace my lemon or extend the warranty. I waited 1 month to get my laptop back, and they mailed it to the wrong address.
Also, I was on the phone to them for over 1 hour. I asked for a replacement, but I lost the call.
hacastro's full review | 64 words
Review by
littlenick
on 9th May 2006
User Rating : 3
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When it's working it is a dream, everything loads quickly, really is wonderful to use (as long as you're using a mouse).
When it breaks it breaks in style:
The first time the memory went pop and they replaced it - I still got blue screens every now and again but they told there was nothing wrong with that!! The second time it died completely, blue screens and wouldn't boot, and then complete failure, and they replaced the motherboard after I argued with them that was the faulty component ...
littlenick's full review | 371 words
Review by
THE LEAFY BUG
on 20th Aug 2004
User Rating : 10
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The Dell Inspiron 9100 is super fast. I'm on it right now, actually. Here's what I have under the hood:
Pent 4 3.0 Ghz with hyperthreading
40 GB hard drive
1.0 GB ddr RAM (WOO!)
128 MB ATI radeon 9700 graphics
cd burner/dvd rom drive
wireless network card b/g
4 usb 2.0 ports
1394 port
ethernet card/modem
built in "subwoofer"
s-video and dvi
I think that's all that's important.
The sound from this thing is amazing. It doesn't have that wimpy "laptop" sound. It has an awesome "subwoo ...
THE LEAFY BUG's full review | 392 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
Mikec
on 21st Jun 2004
User Rating : 10
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The Dell Insipron 9100 is a GREAT laptop. My notebook specs are P4 3.2 GHZ (MAX) 512MB DDR 3200 (400MHZ) FAST for a notebook for now 2004. Later the memory will be faster for notebooks I hope. I have a 100GB drive. Hope it will not have any problems at all.
Mikec's full review | 87 words
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