Dell INSPIRON 8500 40 GB Hard drive - internal

Midwestjack's Review of Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop

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

Review of Dell Inspiron 8500

It heats up, battery life is rubbish, and under the warranty they say certain things aren't covered, so make sure you read the small print. I have a work laptop which I use too. It is an IBM Thinkpad. It is not as big as a Dell laptop, but it is dur

Review of Dell Inspiron 8500

The Dell Inspiron 8500 is basically a pile of junk and is no use to anybody. For the price you buy this, you could buy an Apple ibook.

Review of Dell Inspiron 8500

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 X

Billed as 'the multimedia mean machine', Dell's latest offering is another notebook aimed at replacing a traditional desktop PC. What it lacks in portability it more than makes up for in power, which is just as well given its somewhat bulky frame. Much of the Inspiron's bulk comes from a gorgeous...

Dell Inspiron 8500 Dell's new-look Inspiron range veers away from the realms of corporate computing, and attempts to penetrate the high street The Inspiron 8500 is the first of a raft of new notebooks from Dell. In the past the Inspiron series, Dell's flagship notebook range, has been...

But the changes aren’t just case-deep. Inside, the 8500 incorporates a 2.4GHz Intel Pentium 4-M processor accompanied by 512MB of DDR SDRAM. In MobileMark 2002 it notches up 130, a score only beaten by the new Centrino laptops. Measuring 361x276x39mm and weighing a hefty 3.5kg, you can carry it...

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With its wide-aspect 15.4in. screen, excellent performance and reasonable battery life, Dell's redesigned Inspiron 8500 series is a mobile media powerhouse...