Dell Inspiron 5150

My inspiron 5150 is 7 years old and is still running very strong!!

I use it at least 4-5 hours a day and never had a problem. Its pretty fast and plays my favorite games very well (battle field games). I wish I could update the video card, it wont play newer games. Mine has the P4 3.06, with 1GB of ram and a 60g hard drive.

This dell inspiron 5150 Laptop is absolutly amazing!!!!

i would recomend this to anyone!

Nearly 6 years old and still going strong. Yes, there's smaller, faster, cheaper laptops out there that will out perform it now, but none I've seen that come close to its 1600x1200 screen. It will be a sad day when this Dell Inspiron dies. I guess the people who have had problems were unlucky, or perhaps the original batch was well built and subsequent corner cutting has impacted the model. Or I have one that was assembled on a good day :-)

Poorly designed. Overheated and failed. Took class action lawsuit to get it fixed. Was quite unhappy with the Dell service, I felt it was unresponsive and slow. I got passed form department to department. Therefore I do not recommend the Dell Inspiron 5150 Laptop.

Motherboard died while on a business trip. Paid ' 400+ for a new motherboard. Just back from another trip and Hard disk died while away. Luckily this time it died after I had just completed my jobs. Must now try and salvage the data from the HD. Overall this is one extremely disappointing Laptop. Just bought a new Sony Vaio 17" and hopefully it will give better service than the Dell.

I think the battery life on the Dell Inspiron 5150 is very low, maybe 45 minutes at best. Worked well during warranty period, then the screen failed.

This is a boat anchor at best, try carrying one of these through the airport for a multiple leg trip and you will get a workout. But it is 5 years old and still working with XP.

im using this laptop right now ive had it for 5 years ive used it everyday for mannnny hour no problems a little noisy and hot thts it other than tht its a greeeeat laptop

I have used it 3/5 days a week for 5 years. It's fairly powerful and fast thanks to the Pentium processor. Unfortunately the LCD diplay failed during the 2nd week, and the mother board failed after 2 years. In the 4th year the sound is gone completely and because it is out of warranty it's not worth fixing. Still running XP and hopying to use it for another 1 or 2 years. Still good for basic use, apart form sound.

Dell = don't bother in my opinion. Although their customer service was good, after two replacement Laptops with Keyboard and hard drive failure. Third unit the keyboard started to fall to bits so purchased a second hand keyboard to repair only for the hard drive to fail before fitting new keyboard. Ditched Dell Laptops from now on and switched to similar priced HP Laptop and no problems so far in 18 months and Keyboard seem better made and still feels like new 18 months in.

I've used this laptop daily now, for at least 5-6 hours a day, often running it for 12+ hours at a time for the last 5 years. Nothing's broken on it, and the only problem I've had is running out of disk space. I've upgraded the CDRW/DVD-ROM to a dual layer DVD-RW, I've just placed an order with Dell to upgrade my RAM from 1GB to 2GB, and will shortly buy a faster, larger hard drive. It should then see me for another 3-4 years, accidents permitting

I have the 1600x1200 UXGA screen which takes a lot of beating - I prefer it to the 17" 1440 x 900, WXGA+ screen I have on my new Sony Vaio VGNAR51E at work.

I use Visual Studio 2005, Cubase SX3, Reason 4, all with no problems. Whilst I was going through the MMORPG phase, it ran World of Warcraft and Everquest with no problems, and it's pretty much made my desktop redundant. It is heavy, so it's not something you'd just throw in a briefcase and expect not to notice.

The fan can be obtrusive in a quiet room, but once it's in an office atmosphere you don't notice it. With a fan control program like the one found at diefer.de you don't get overheating problems.

I don't really use Bluetooth that much, but the odd occasion I do, it would be nice to have it built in instead of having to find my dongle. Not really a problem though.

I'd recommend a 5150 without any hesitation. I most certainly won't be fouling it with the bloated malware that is Vista - Im sticking to XP Pro. If it's not broken, don't fix it!