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Rating

Brand Dell

Color Jet Black

Type Personal Computers

List Price $689.99

Special Price

Lowest New Price $885.00

Lowest Used Price $670.00

Key Features

15.6-inch LED-backlit TrueLife widescreen display together with 1366 x 768-pixel resolution (Study extra)
Windows 7 Home Premium makes it simple to make a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. And you can watch shows for free when and where you would like together with Internet TV on Windows Media Center. Get the excellent entertainment experience together with Windows 7 Home Premium. (Study extra)
Get extra features together with Windows Anytime Upgrade. It's the excellent way to add features to Windows 7, takes as few as ten minutes, requires no software or downloads, and you'll keep your current programs, files, and environments. Windows will walk you throughout the neat upgrade process.
2.1 GHz Intel Pentium T4300 dual-core processor (Study extra)
250 GB hard drive
4 GB of installed RAM together with 800 MHz speed (maximum capacity)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD graphics together with up to 1750 MB of dynamically shared memory allocated by the system (Study extra)
1.3 megapixel webcam together with facial recognition software automatically secures your computer when you're away. This software adapts to your varying looks so you can expect faster login times. In addition, there's no want to remember numerous passwords for password-protected Web sites.
8x multi-format DVD drive maintains reading/writing of CD-R/RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, DVD±R DL, and DVD-RAM
54g Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g)
Quick Ethernet (10/100)
Built-in stereo speakers
Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007
Pre-loaded software consists of McAfee SecurityCenter for anti-virus protection (together with 30 days of updates)
Dell Dock: Enjoy a cleaner desktop together with this application organizer. Installed software applications on your PC are automatically sorted into customer-friendly categories placing your much frequently used programs front and center.
Dell DataSafe Online backup service proposes data protection by enabling clients to back up data to a safe, remote storage site utilizing a broadband connection. Dell DataSafe Online is simple, flexible and secure. Afterwards configuration, it will automatically back up data and help protect against software, hardware and catastrophic failure.
Together with Dell Remote Access you can effortlessly access photos, music, movies and extra on your home system utilizing another Internet-connected computer.
Dell Support Center: This centrally placed, simple-to-use application offers personalized support resources. Conveniently placed on your PC's desktop together with fast links to service, support and system resources. Helps keep your system up-to-date and running efficiently throughout automated fixes for common configuration issues.
6-cell battery
Dimensions: 14.7 x 9.6 x 1.5 inches (WxDxH)
Weight: 5.8 pounds
Warranty: One-year together with 24x7 technical support

Networking, Connectivity & Extension
This notebook has an included 54g wireless LAN this's fully compatible together with 802.11b/g wireless networks as well as Quick (10/100) Ethernet networking. It in addition consists of a next-generation ExpressCard card slot (replacing the PCMCIA slot), which lets you get advantage of thinner, faster, and lighter extension cards for even extra complex wireless, networking, storage, and safety features. It comes together with the following external connectors:

3 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players
- Consists of 1 eSATA/USB combo port
Analog video output: 1 VGA
1 ExpressCard/34 slot
7-in-1 memory card reader compatible together with Secure Digital, Secure Digital High Capacity, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, and extra
1 headphone jack, 1 microphone jack
RJ-45 port for Ethernet

What's in the Box
This package contains the Dell Studio 1555 notebook PC, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions

Study Extra

15.6-Inch High-Definition Display

This notebook has a 15.6-inch TFT display together with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels (native 720p for high-definition viewing). It in addition offers TrueLife high-gloss/anti-reflective technology, which features a sharp contrast finish this's well suited to immersive 3D games and watching videos. Its widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio is intended to present websites not including lots of left-right scrolling, as well as together with a smoother line of sight. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, which uses shared video memory (up to 1750 MB allocated from the system memory). This graphics card is built together with Intel Clear Video technology, which brings clearer, extra detailed pictures by eliminating many of the jagged edges and video artifacts seen when viewing interlaced content and features great color control to ensure videos are not too dark, overly bright, or washed out.

Windows 7 Home Premium makes it simple to make a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV. Get the excellent entertainment experience together with Windows 7 Home Premium.

Simplify usual tasks	Work the way you would like	Do new things possible

Simplify your PC together with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap. Customize Windows to look and feel the way you like by varying themes and taskbar programs. Environment up a home network and connecting to printers and devices is easier than ever. Windows 7 Home Premium maintains the latest hardware and software.	Intended to do your PC sleep and resume quicker. Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory. Connecting to wireless networks is quick and simple.	Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV together with Windows Media Center. Watch your favorite DVD movies. Consists of included video and Dolby audio codecs.

Jump Lists
New in Windows 7, Jump Lists get you right to the documents, images, songs, or websites you turn to every day. To open a Jump List, just right-click a program icon on the Windows 7 taskbar. (You'll in addition locate them on the Begin menu.) What you see in a Jump List depends entirely on the program. The Jump List for Internet Explorer 8 shows frequently-viewed websites. Windows Media Player 12 lists commonly-played tunes. Your Jump List missing a favorite? You can "pin" whatever files you like there. Jump Lists don't just show shortcuts to files. Sometimes they in addition offer fast access to commands for things like composing new e‑mail messages or playing music.

Improved Windows Taskbar
In Windows 7 you can "pin" favorite programs anyplace on the taskbar for simple access. Not crazy concerning the icon lineup? Now you can rearrange them any way you like by clicking and dragging. Finally, there are new ways to preview windows. Point to a taskbar icon to see a thumbnail preview of open files or programs. Then, move your mouse over a thumbnail to preview the window full-screen. You can even shut windows from the thumbnail previews--a big time saver.

Snap
Ever want to cut throughout a cluttered desktop and shortly focus on a single window? Just click a pane and provide your mouse a shake. Each open window except this one instantly disappears. Jiggle again--and your windows are back.

Which version of Windows 7 is Excellent for You?

Dual-Core Pentium Power

Ready to move up to a dual-core? This Intel Pentium processor-based PC is a good situate to begin. The Intel Pentium processor is the quick dual-core this lets you surf the web and run multiple applications concurrently. So you can browse, IM, download music or transport photos all at one time. And use office applications, too.

Together with the 2.1 GHz Intel Pentium T4300 dual-core processor, you'll be effective to perform multiple tasks such as digital rendering and gaming all while running virus scan or other background tasks flawlessly. And its Intel 64 architecture is in addition ready for tomorrow's 64-bit applications, and proposes increased performance throughout improved virtual memory. It has a 1 MB L2 cache and an 800 MHz front-side bus (FSB). (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a big L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will bring better overall performance.)

Additional Accessories

Norton 360 4.0 1 User (3 PC)

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 3-User

Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]

AmazonBasics RJ45 Cat5e Ethernet Patch Cable (14 Feet / 4.2 Meters)

Customer Reviews

Great Value 2010-06-05

By Ms Muffintop (Mile High Frazier Park, CA)

If you have the money a MacIntosh is nice and will last you five years before becoming out dated, if you haven't got that kind of cash, buying a new one of these every year would be about the same price! Love the size and the operating system. Comes with a built in camera for video chat and a DVD/CD player. The battery lasts me about 4 hours. I like the screen, watching DVD's the picture is sharp. About the only downside is, if you go with Windows operating systems, it's important to buy the protection software you will need to keep out hackers. Don't open attachments from people you don't know!

Excellent. 2010-03-14

By William Melo (Miami., FL., US)

This was a great purchase. Everything went OK, The product was perfectly sealed and brand new, absolutely a great deal.

Buy this over a netbook it is worth the extra $150. Great General Use laptop. Long Lasting if taken care of! 2010-03-08

By S. Hussey (Rochester, NH)

I was looking for a laptop for my wife and I to use to replace our last laptop which was a Dell Inspiron 8100 (yes I know it would seem that this would be a later model but the odometer must have clicked over on their model numbering system). That laptop was 9 years old. Still original screen and keyboard. I did replace the hard drive with a larger one and had to replace the batteries once along with the screen hinge. Other than that my first Inspiron lasted well past its predicted life. The cost of that laptop - $2500.

The year is now 2010 and I was able to pick this laptop up from Dell for $549 with a bonus of 4GB ram. It has a dual core intel chip. It is easily as powerful as my current desktop. I reinstalled the Windows 7 operating system right out of the box wiping out all of the Dell factory added software. Usually those programs are just clutter. In 30 minutes I was firing Windows 7 up on the new Inspiron.

We have had it for about a week and we are very pleased with the purchase. I'll just quickly go over a few of the positives, some of the items that could have been made better and some features that I didn't think about when ordering the laptop that I would have liked to add but didn't.

This laptop is the base model of base models in the laptop world. Make sure whatever laptop you get it has a great cpu and plenty of memory. The hard drive you can change later, the rest you can not. For this price point the CPU and memory is fantastic. No issues running multiple applications. It will work great for Photo editing software, internet browsing and watching online movies or playing music.

The network card included is a 54mb/s speed (G) however there was a choice to get the faster N network card which I opted not to get. Two days after I got the laptop my router broke and I bought a new N network router. Now my laptop is stuck at the slower speed. *BUT SLOWER IS PLENTY FAST FOR ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO HERE* If you don't need the cutting edge speed then stick with the G option. A note about N - there is no standard yet for this speed. This means that devices could be incompatible with newer Routers if the standar is finalized differently than it exists now.

I chose the 9-cell battery over the standard 6 cell. I am big on getting alot of time out of a charge in a laptop. It is nice to not have to plug it in for 6 hours. Which is about what I am getting at the moment. This will decrease over time so the higher starting point will make the mid life range of the battery probably be in 4 hour range. Note though that the 9 cell battery uses a modified battery cover and extends from the back of the laptop with 3 extra batteries.

The screen is bright and clear. It is not full high def but close to half high def. (The resolution is not the official 720p half high def but in fact just slightly higher.) Being a base laptop with an economy price the need for anything more expensive will really outdo the other components and I find it is unnecessary for my purposes.

The look is simple which is my preference. The insides of the laptop around the keboard and screen are Jet Black (and attract fingerprints) the outside of mine is flat black with a silver Dell logo. This also attracts greasy fingerprints. You will have to just not let this bother you and clean it with a soft cotton cloth every once in a while. Its a a budget laptop with great looks and clean lines.

So the good - inexpensive, good option for a longer life batter, clear bright screen.

The annoying (I wouldn't call it bad - because it is a budget laptop). Probably to make these next few items better the cost of the laptop would increase.

The pointer - a pad in this model. We loose the fingertip pointer on the keyboard which I used almost exclusively in my old laptop. They cleaned up the touch pad and made it look integral to the remainder of the case of the laptop. There are no edges for crumbs to get caught in. There are two buttons below it for right and left clicking. This is adequate for the laptop of this price range. However the annoying part comes in that it is touch. Typing and a brief graze with a thumb will relocate your pointer. Annoying but you get used to it. The last annoying thing about it is that it is very difficult to select a larger portion of text. This can probably be fixed by adjusting the pointer setting in Windows. I just haven't gotten to that yet.

Since we didn't get a high def screen there is no high def output. I wanted to connect this to my tv to view some Hulu.com shows but there was nothing to accomplish this. There is a single VGA out to connect to a External Monitor or a Project but no dongle as in the Inspiron 8100 that just gave us an S VIDEO out. A sign of the times I guess.

Ok so I guess not too many annoying things. More better than worse with the best feature being the price making this laptop reachable by most budgets. Spend the extra $150 bucks and get this laptop over a Mini (netbook).

I would buy this from dell directly. Shipping may take longer however you can often find deals like I did for money off the price along with an upgrade to 4GB memory. It ships with Windows 7 64bit and this OS is plenty worth it, a large improvement over Vista. Brings me back to the Windows XP times.

I give this 4 starts not 5 because of the lack of the fingertip pointer, no external video connection to connect to the TV's of today. I would get 4 and a half probably. I hope this one will last me another at least 5 years.

One other note before I go - Dell laptops are fragile. If you take care of them, don't carry them by the screen, close them with not in use and just be overall gentle with their use and placing them down. Keep it in a padded bag and it should serve you well. To get the best life out of the battery, use the battery! Plug it in to charge it to 100% and then unplug it. Use it until it has as close as you feel comfortable to 0% - I usually use it to around 15% and then plug it back in overnight.

Hope you enjoy. (see my other reviews and support future reviews by visiting [...])

Sean
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lemon of a laptop! 2010-02-21

By R. Saliba

The Dell laptop has been a hassle. The cursor jumps around on the page while typing making regular use very frustrating and time consuming! I contacted Dell during the warranty period and they sent a new key pad however, this has not fixed the problem. In addition the wireless system is weak. We have 5 other wireless laptops in the house but my Dell is the only one that is constantly not finding the signal or going offline. I would not recommend this product.

I agree, Dell is Unethical 2010-01-20

By R. Searl (Michigan, USA)

I also have had issues with Dell and the Inspiron 1545. Firstly, there is a known issue with the cursor randomly jumping to a different spot while typing. At first I thought it was an issue with MS Word, but then it began happening anywhere I was typing outside of Word such as Gmail or even writting a review for Amazon. Researching the issue online, I found I was not alone with this problem. Trying to get support from Dell was a joke. They give you the run around until you give up. Then, about 3 months after I bought it, the touchpad stopped working. I only paid $649.00 for the machine, so I expected mid-level performance, but needless to say I was disappointed with my first Dell laptop. I own 2 Dell desktops that I have had no issues with. However, I will not be buying another Dell laptop.

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