Comments for FunPonsel.us http://funponsel.us Daily Related Gadgets, Computers and Electronics News. Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:13:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Dell D600 Laptop 1.6ghz 40gb DVD/CDRW B Grade Includes Genuine XP Professional restore cd! by Paul Berry http://funponsel.us/181/dell-d600-laptop-1-6ghz-40gb-dvdcdrw-b-grade-includes-genuine-xp-professional-restore-cd.html#comment-802 Paul Berry Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:13:11 +0000 http://funponsel.us/2010/11/dell-d600-laptop-1-6ghz-40gb-dvdcdrw-b-grade-includes-genuine-xp-professional-restore-cd/#comment-802 <i>Review by Paul Berry for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dell-D600-Genuine-Professional-restore/dp/B000M8OX6W%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIMIWC2PUKCAUDQIA%26tag%3Dfunponsel.org-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000M8OX6W" rel="nofollow">Dell D600 Laptop 1.6ghz 40gb DVD/CDRW B Grade Includes Genuine XP Professional restore cd!</a></i> <b>Rating: <img src="http://funponsel.us/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3.24/images/3.png" /></b> I ordered a refurbished D600 from Dell Financial Services 3 years ago. It was a good solid laptop while I had it. Mine had 1gb of RAM and a CD/DVDROM (no burner). Mine also did not come with an XP CD or any recovery disc at all. I had an old Windows 2000 CD, so I loaded that. I tried upgrading it to Vista Home Basic. It was way slow, even with 1gb of RAM. I ran Server 2003 and Server 2008 on it for a while, to study for certification exams. I also ran Fedora and Ubuntu Linux for a while. It even ran a hackintosh version of OS X fairly well. I think the hard drive started going bad after I reformatted it so many times. I replaced the hard drive with a spare 20gb drive. This drive was tpo small for Vista, Office and all the latest patches. I went back to Windows 2000, because it was small and ran the best. I never tried it with XP, because Dell did not include the XP CD with my purchase. This was a great laptop for learning different operating systems in a test environment. <br /> <br />I did have a few problems with this laptop. First, the CD/DVD drive had problems booting from CDs after a while. DVDs seemed to boot ok. Second, the hard drive starget going bad. I think I just wore it out. It was easy enough to replace myself. Third, way slow with Windows Vista. I agree with the other reviewers who said it's too slow to be a gaming computer. <br /> <br />My biggest complaint with the D600, is that it's so darn heavy. It weighs almost 5 1/2 lbs, or over 6 lbs if you include the charger. That's just too heavy to lug around when I'm traveling. I sold it to a friend for a very good price and ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook to take traveling. The 2.2 lb Netbook is way more convenient to take traveling. By the way, most Netbooks have a 1.6ghz processor compared to the 1.4ghz processor in the D600. Sometimes I miss the 14 inch screen, but the Netbooks small size, lightweight and portablity more than make up for it. Review by Paul Berry for Dell D600 Laptop 1.6ghz 40gb DVD/CDRW B Grade Includes Genuine XP Professional restore cd!
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I ordered a refurbished D600 from Dell Financial Services 3 years ago. It was a good solid laptop while I had it. Mine had 1gb of RAM and a CD/DVDROM (no burner). Mine also did not come with an XP CD or any recovery disc at all. I had an old Windows 2000 CD, so I loaded that. I tried upgrading it to Vista Home Basic. It was way slow, even with 1gb of RAM. I ran Server 2003 and Server 2008 on it for a while, to study for certification exams. I also ran Fedora and Ubuntu Linux for a while. It even ran a hackintosh version of OS X fairly well. I think the hard drive started going bad after I reformatted it so many times. I replaced the hard drive with a spare 20gb drive. This drive was tpo small for Vista, Office and all the latest patches. I went back to Windows 2000, because it was small and ran the best. I never tried it with XP, because Dell did not include the XP CD with my purchase. This was a great laptop for learning different operating systems in a test environment.

I did have a few problems with this laptop. First, the CD/DVD drive had problems booting from CDs after a while. DVDs seemed to boot ok. Second, the hard drive starget going bad. I think I just wore it out. It was easy enough to replace myself. Third, way slow with Windows Vista. I agree with the other reviewers who said it’s too slow to be a gaming computer.

My biggest complaint with the D600, is that it’s so darn heavy. It weighs almost 5 1/2 lbs, or over 6 lbs if you include the charger. That’s just too heavy to lug around when I’m traveling. I sold it to a friend for a very good price and ordered a Dell Mini 9 netbook to take traveling. The 2.2 lb Netbook is way more convenient to take traveling. By the way, most Netbooks have a 1.6ghz processor compared to the 1.4ghz processor in the D600. Sometimes I miss the 14 inch screen, but the Netbooks small size, lightweight and portablity more than make up for it.

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