Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop Review

I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop ( in Ruby red) in October of 2007 and no sooner did I take it out of the box, then it did not work. It was supposed to have a dvd player, but this did not work. Of course I called Dell and they had me stay on the phone for two hours trying to fix the problem. I dare say I am learning to be a techie, because they went over the same steps over and over and over. Finally, the tech suggested I get an RMA and return it because the problem was not able to be solved. After waiting 3 weeks, I recieved the laptop back and used it From February to June. Then more problems began to surface. The screen began pixelating when I would start it up. Then it refused to shut down and claimed it did not finish installing updates, then when I would type, it would jump to the beginning of what ever I was typing, in hotmail, in gmail and in text documents., and the audio and microphone options did not work. This was very unnerving!!! I called Dell again and I spent another two hours following the instructions of the techie to no avail. They decided to reformat and that did not work either, so they mailed me a harddrive. This fixed the audio problem, but it was still pixelated and now a new problem surfaced, the cd drive was leaving imbedded circles on the disks. I am still waiting for repair to this and my warranty expires in Oct. of 2008. I would suggest reading up on the 1520 AND 1521 Before you buy. If many other people are having problems, then it would be best to make another choice of laptop.