Dell Inspiron 600M for Home user reviews (Pentium M 1.4GHz, 512MB, 30GB)

Cons This was my first and last purchase from Dell, Dell customer service is great but your Hardware sucks, I change my hard drive 3 times and still I am having problem with it. is not reliable at all, again Dell is good in customer service but BAD BAD BAD in

Pros My system config: 1.3 GHz proc, 512 MB RAM, 32 MB Video ATI 9000 card, DVD/CDRW combo, SXGA+ video, 40 GB hdd and inbuilt wireless. Been working very well since the past 9 months. Very responsive for most tasks. Excellent display quality. No complaints pe

Cons Screen is flimsy. Keyboard slightly clickety but comfortable to work on for very long hours. Slight heating on the left side but not too bad. The heat is apparently due to HDD activity. So if you use apps that do a lot of disk activity (norton antivirus f

Pros First the battery meter looks as if it is going to die but if u replace the second compartment u can have a long battery....Also my Dell could go on the internet without a internet card.....and i use cable...THE Graphics are great I play Counter Strike an

Cons THE ONLY PROBLEM THAT I HAD WAS THE CRAFTMANSHIP the power charger needle was stuck in the hole between the motherboard and the charger in the computer it doesnt matter my warranty will cover it...OH YEAH all notebooks get hot so u shouldnt just complain

Pros battery life pretty good, case held up

Cons hot (even w/ new battery), wireless and ethernet crapped out, hard drive iffy

Summary I bought a 600m in March 2004 - it worked great for a year and a month (my school purchased only the 1 year warranty). Since then the system slowly failed to recognize that a network cable was plugged in, then failed to recognize the ethernet adapter, then failed to recognize the wireless adapter. I tried replacing the wireless card - didn't help. For the last year, I've had to use USB adapters to connect to a network. Bulky and easily broken, especially when I am trying to transport the computer from my office to my classroom. The battery, hard drive, and palm rest all get excessively hot. The machine rarely shuts down without freezing and often refuses to display useful icons in the task bar, like the volume icon (oddly, kodak comes up all the time). The hard drive has crashed on me a few times, though I've been able to recover by removing it and putting it back in - don't know what that's about. I know this one's now verging on obsolescence, but I expected more life out of it, given my past experiences with Dells. I think their quality is going downhill.