Dell Inspiron 17

Computer showed severe freezing and shutdown problems early on, so I called Dell to try to fix it. Thus began a nightmare of long hold times, clueless customer service reps, multiple transfers and LOTS of my time spent filling out online forms and waiting for responses from Dell- all the while starting school with a laptop posessed by demons. This is not the only problem I've had recently with Dell- I ordered a spare battery from Dell, received the wrong one, and spent over 40 minutes haggling with customer service and sales reps, then had to send four emails (each requiring me to fill out a lengthy and redundant form,) before finally getting the right battery and a return authorization for the wrong one they sent. They still haven’t credited my account, even though I first contacted them about the issue almost a month ago. I also had the same problem trying to return a copy of Microsoft Office which they informed me would be over a week behind the rest of my order (which was already late by then.) Dell is exceptionally difficult to deal with, and has no concept for the value of their customers’ time. I will never buy anything from them again.

This laptop computer is ideal for the college student who needs a lot of basic features.

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it's doing fine but it gets a little hot. batt life seems good. Wish it had more USB ports or ports in different locations.

Using as desktop replacement and am very happy with performance and mobility. Seems to handle multiple windows and process without taxing system at all. Display is crisp and is a great size for movies and displaying side by side windows/web pages.

This laptop crashed 3 times within the first 24 hours of use. [...]. Screen resolution was horrible. Overall a totally worthless product.

Wanted to replace my old, bulky laptop for a long time and did a lot of comparison shopping before purchasing this one. All of our computers are Dell, and we have had great luck with them dating back to 1999, so when this one came out on top, I was...

My huband and I bought this computer a few months ago, main reason was for school....we needed something reasonably priced and easy to get back and forth to school. We also have two kids that use this computer when we go on trips and stay in...

It's only been a month, but I haven't found a better deal anywhere. A really nice machine for the price. Everything works. No problems thus far.

This thing is awesome. Crazy fast. HUGE, gorgeous screen. I use this laptop for many things and it's handles everything with ease! I don't do gaming on here. I have a PC for that, but this got a 4.7 Windows 7 rating based on the lowest score which was...

I bought this laptop about a month ago and I am loving it. The processor is great! Good Job Intel! It cant be slowed down! The Hyperthreading makes it a quad core pretty much. The cover is a fingerprint nightmare but easy to clean that up. Very Thin...