DELL Inspiron 1720 17″ Widescreen Notebook, 2.0GHz INTEL CORE 2 DUO, WiFi, 4GB RAM, 320GB, CDRW/DVDRW+DL, Webcam, Bluetooth, Windows Vista Home Premium
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As one of the first of the mainstream computer manufacturers to develop a laptop around the new Intel Core Duo processor, Dell has much riding on the success of the new Inspiron 1720. The 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor will either sink or swim in Dells mainstream portables depending upon its reception here. Matched with 4GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 that promises to run even the thirstiest applications with aplomb, the major yardstick is not whether Core 2 Duo can keep pace with the Pentium M (Dothan), but whether it can perform without reducing battery life to minutes rather than hours. Yet having said that, it is easy to think that the Inspirons sole point of interest is the aforementioned CPU. You see, this is Dells attempt at an all-i (more…)
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Oct 13th, 2009 at 5:26 am
I agree with the other reviews. I bought the Dell 1720 laptop online after a bit of research (not enough obviously) and I have had noting but problems. Blue screens, video card crashes, incompatible software. This laptop cannot perform the simplest tasks without struggling. This product should be recalled and blacklisted.
The after-sales support was horrendous – no one knew how to fix the laptop after hours & hours on-hold with Indian Call centres. Once elevated, they could do nothing further, not even a refund or exchange. I will be sending them a legal letter shortly, considering the amount I paid and the promises made.
STAY AWAY FROM ANY PRODUCT WHERE YOU CANNOT WALK INTO A STORE, GET FACE-TO-FACE CUSTOMER SERVICES AND GET A REFUND!!!!!
STAY AWAY FROM ANYTHING DELL!!!
Oct 13th, 2009 at 10:56 am
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1720, refurbished, and it has been nothing but trouble since the box was opened. During the “Computer Set-Up” Vista crashed & rebooted the machine. It kept randomly rebooting, without any rhyme or reason: While I was looking at the installed programs; When I tried some of the pre-packaged games (solitaire); When I was online using Windows Explorer; When I was using my Firefox browser. It would restart with multiple programs or a single program running.
The obvious fix was to upgrade to Windows XP. Except that this machine is engineered so that it is not backwards compatible with any OS prior to Vista.
It was even replaced with another refurbished machine which crashed just as frequently and inexplicably.
Then they replaced some of the hardware (CPU & Hard drive) and returned it without reinstalling the operating system or any software. After I did that the computer continued to randomly reboot. Now they want to return to the beginning and make me do their diagnostic work for them instead of making good on their poorly designed machine.
Buy something else instead. There has not been one PC in my possession that has not needed serious effort to get to work at the most basic level, and this machine continues that experience. Save your money & aggravation…buy some other system.