Ab Work Outs: Dell Inspiron 1526 Laptop Midnight Blue (15.4" Wide Screen with true life, built-in Webcam, AMD Turion Dual-Core TL-60 processor at 2.00GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, 8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability, Windows Vista Premium) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this baby the same day I was going to get ripped off/tricked by someone into buying one of their old laptops. I figured why get an old one when can get a brand new one for the same price with more hard drive space.

When I opened the box I was pleasantly surprised to see my brand new jet black inspiron 1526 with all those wonderful specs, sans the video card (I don't play games on my laptop much anyway so not a problem.) It and Vista worked great, especially because every piece of hardware that I had (mouse, printer, digital camera, cell phone) all were compatible with Vista.

3 Months later I get an error code that will not allow me to log onto my computer. I figured the nice people at Dell would help.They gave me a hardy *BLANK* Off, go to the retailer that you purchased the laptop from for help.I go to Best Buy who wanted to back up my files for $90? ahmm how bout no. (Best buy didnt have a warranty option on the website when I purchased it) They sent it to get "repaired" under the dell warranty.Dell had it for a week, did a diagnostics check, sent it back to me with an A OK!Got home,STILL COULD NOT LOG ON!

I had to split the drive into 3 partitions, re-install Vista on a second partition, in order to access all my files.Then burn them on disks for safe keeping while I formatted the entire hard drive and reinstalled all the drivers myself and put back all my files.

2 Months later. Sitting listening ( the speakers aren't great at all. But plug some headphones in and turn it up you'll be partially deaf for a minute or so) to a CD in the laptop while browsing, BLIP system shuts down wont turn back on.Take it back to best buy. They send it out for another week.Diagnosis...Mother Board burned out (after 5 months). I'm hearing its a common problem with the 1526.Dell fixed that.I get my laptop back from Worst Buy WITHOUT my CD. My calls have not been returned by Hells repair people or Worst Buy.

I would give this laptop a low 3.A 2.9 if possible.When its good its good, but when its bad it REAL bad.

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