Imagine the frustration with Dell when I placed the order on the 11 January and a few days later they told me due to multiple part shortage, the shipment date is pushed to 28 January!!!!
Thank goodness it arrived on the 25th instead.
No doubt this is a company laptop and so I'm constrained by a little budget. Otherwise I would have gotten the XPS 1330 with LED screen. But my boss would kill me by then....... :PAll that said, I'm actually very pleased with this baby. The specs which I got was:
- Core 2 Duo 7250
- 2 gb RAM
- 160GB HDD
- 1200x800 Truelife screen
- Intel X3100 Graphics
- 2MP camera and fingerprint scanner
- WIFI a/g/n
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 6 cell battery
- Vista Business edition
- "Small" Dell carrying bag
- 2GB Thumbdrive
If you haven't noticed, the battery has a section that "sticks" out from the chassis. Not particularly good looking. :P
The keyboard is acceptable but the ".", "," and "/" keys are half sized. So it takes a while to get used to. Also the function key is on the right side of the right ctrl key so you tend to press the func key when you are trying to press ctrl.
Whats cool and what I liked most was that all the indicator lights and media keys are in blue!!!! :D Even the LED for webcam and the indicator on the adaptor are blue. Hahahahhaha !!! I love it!!!
Battery life should be ok as I was on WIFI, surfing while doing some Word and Excel files and iTunes playing in the background for slightly over 2 hours and the capacity was 49% remaining.
This is how it looks like in a dark environment. Imagine if all the keys are lighted up in blue too!!!! Hahahahaha that would be TOO much for me!!!!
I've yet to test the WIFI N connection. I'm thinking of getting the Belkin N router. I've seen it at the shops selling for about RM380. I think the price can be bargained a little. :)
Till then I'll be "messing" with this baby for most of my working hours. In short I am happy with this baby.
5 comments:
Hi there,
I bought the same laptop, ordered on 12 Jan, they gave me the same excuse as yours, saying not enough parts,and I received it on 22 Jan.
I'm happy with it except that the battery sticking out at the back. So I complained to Dell, saying that what I got is not the same as what is shown on their website.
They offered me a 4-cell battery free out of goodwill. I told them that I want to replace a 6-cell battery that do not sticks out but they told me that they don't have that for Vostro, don't know true or not????
Anyway, if u want an extra battery, make a complaint :p
When the Vostro 1200 1st came out for the India market, it was shipped with a 4 cell batt that does not stick out.
But I think with the faster and more power consuming processors, the 4 cell batts could not last as long. So they decided to come out with a 6 cell. I even asked if they had a 9 cell batt for vostro... :P Hopefully they will come out with a 9 cell batt..... I dun mind it sticking out, but the batt time is important to me... :)
been reading your blog over and over again before i decided to buy dell vostro 1200... thanks for posting! =)
Wow, how come your Vostro has such a long battery life?!?!? Mine is barely 2.5 hours and its got pretty much the same specs. Help!! Having to run for a power point is driving me mad.
Hmmm actually after 6 months of daily use... the battery life is now around 3hrs with about 10% to 15% remaining. :) Still bearable for me. Darn... still no 9 cell batt for Vostro yet.... :P
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