Dell Inspiron 19 Desktop - Reviews?
Marts
the screen in one slimline box that looks like a fat monitor.
The local Good Guys has one model with the Pentium Dual Core 2.6 gig CPU on
special for $970 (pay less for cash).
Just wondering if anyone here has had a play with one of these bad boys and if
so, what was it like?
The price is about 30 bux cheaper than Dell's online offer. And it has 4 gig of
RAM versus Dell's online offer which has 2 gig of RAM.
Acacia
"Marts" <ma...@ymail.com> wrote in message
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It's budget grade computer components in a flimsy package.
The Vostro 320 all-in-one would be better value.
Hugh Jeego
exceedingly well - is that you can phone them or order on internet and have
the order delivered to your door in 2 working days and guess what? That's
the thing they want to get rid of!
However, to give them a break, there are exceptions to every rule. I have
seen a Dell that is ancient still working well but then so is a 600Mhz
computer I built in 1999.
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son of a bitch
Inspirons are entry level computers.
Meaning: Only use slower components, limited upgrade capability.
Upgrade of Video Card either Impossible or near Impossible, this
also limits what sort of screen you can attach in the future. Only a
couple of cards slots for expansion. If it could do this, then why would
anyone buy the others for 2-3 times the cost.
There isn't a lot of Difference between buying at Dell Online and
a 3rd party supplier. Their all locked in to a price, but having said
that, none of retailers have "Exactly" the same model so you can't
compare bananas and oranges.
Ok for an Office, but if you want to play 3D games at some point forget
it.
Dell use lots of Marketing gimmicks:
Giving you free upgrade, this is only because the ones originally spec'd
are in short supply and larger cheaper ones are available.
Marts
> However, to give them a break, there are exceptions to every rule. I have
> seen a Dell that is ancient still working well but then so is a 600Mhz
> computer I built in 1999.
We have owned or own, rather, two Dell laptops. One of them, an Inspiron 1100 is
still going strong. The other, a C2D XPS 13" model is doing fine at the moment.
Both were my wife's main computers, too. So it's not as if they were dragged out
on the odd occasion.
Based on that we looked at the Dell product. Of course, a laptop may be
different to a desktop computer in terms if build quality and reliability.
Marts
> Inspirons are entry level computers.
It's not an Inspiron that we looked at. Well, I don't think it was. I don't
recall seeing that name in the product description.
> Meaning: Only use slower components, limited upgrade capability.
> Upgrade of Video Card either Impossible or near Impossible, this
> also limits what sort of screen you can attach in the future. Only a
This is one of those all-in-one jobs where the screen and computer innards are
in the one box. So, there would be no upgrade consideration.
We looked at this because of the low amount of real estate that it takes up on
the desk. Further, we don't play computer games so the demand on it isn't great.
It might do some video conversion for burning to DVD or to put onto an iPod, but
that's about it.
> There isn't a lot of Difference between buying at Dell Online and
> a 3rd party supplier. Their all locked in to a price, but having said
> that, none of retailers have "Exactly" the same model so you can't
> compare bananas and oranges.
Officeworks and The Good Guys both had the same model. But Officeworks price is
$999, TGG is $972 (pay less for cash).
In any case we haven't made up our minds yet. There's no urgency and who knows,
there might be something out in the next month or so.
As an aside, I had a play with an HP version of one of these. It has a touch
screen. But only certain elements of the desktop responded to it. I think that
these were shortcuts that were programmed to execute via touch. Others, such as
"Computer" or "Network" merely display a transparent icon of a mouse when I
tapped on them. So, presumably they still need the mouse to execute.
son of a bitch
$999 <> $972, no real difference, not even 5%
They might look, feel and taste the same, but I'll bet the Product-ID on
the side of the case is Different.
Dell at one point used to "Force" you to pay a delivery charge of $99,
a Blatant rip-off until the ACCC stuck it to them. Now they Force you to
pay $40, still a rip-off, shouldn't be more than $20.
SG1
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not in NSW and see the dollars roll.
son of a bitch
Haven't see the Dell all-in-one
The studio Laps and Desks are better than stuff than they used to make
and the all in one is prob'ly a studio.
Seen the HP version of an iMac, really bad. All they did was bolt a PC
case to the back of their Monitor.
Other All-In-One by ASUS, MSI use Atom Processors, don't get hot but
not that speedy.
The iMac is the Best design for the all-in-ones accept, they do get
quite hot.
Hugh Jeego
up was the only other alternative, I worked on a Dell Inspiron. The model
escapes me but is a laptop anyway. The owner of the laptop thought he knew
all he needed to know to take an image of an older Toshiba laptop and shove
it on his Dell. Naturally it didn't work. In fact there was so much wrong
with it he said to just format and reinstall and feeling lazy that day I
thought "sure - why not?" as he really only wanted SOME things there that
could be gotten off his old laptop anyway. So, I set about doing a complete
reinstall using the CDs provided. When I got to the end of it, there were 2
drivers missing, one being the display and the other being the dial up
modem. I asked him for the disk containing them but he had given me
everything so I ring Dell who promptly told me that they don't give those
drivers out because I could download them from internet. I asked the woman
on the phone how I was expected to download a dial up modem driver using a
modem for which there was no driver and all she could do is go
"Oh....ah....Oh.....um...." and so on. Fortunately the guy was an ADSL user
anyway so it wasn't a drama. I rang them because I thought they had dudded
him on the drivers but apparently they hadn't. They just didn't think they
needed to give them out.
There ARE exceptions to every rule but almost all Dell are the rule - crap.
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Marts
> $999 <> $972, no real difference, not even 5%
> They might look, feel and taste the same, but I'll bet the Product-ID on
> the side of the case is Different.
Why do you say that? The specs appear to be identical, going by the advertising
blurb and website specs.
son of a bitch
Could be different RAM Speed, HD Cache, Video Controller, CPU Cache
Retailers don't generally go to that level of detail in Advertising, and
the brochures are just generic covering all models in a Range.
All you'll see is 4Gig RAM, 160GB Disk yadda yadda yadda