Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop Reviews

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In October, I found my Dad's old Dell 8200 sitting on a shelf in the basement while we were cleaning the basement. I was able to make the hard drive operational again. I decided to make this my main computer by upgrading the memory, hard drive, battery, speakers, and mouse. Well, after five months have passed, thousands of man hours invested in work (both mine and paid help), the hard drive crashes. I call Dell's technical support (Who have been a great help in the past) and they tell me that they can't/won't help me or replace the hard drive. They tell me to contact the manufacture and...

I have had this computer for 3 years now. i have never been a big fan of dell however this laptop is not bad. they best part about this laptop is the size its small and lightweight making it very portable. works well for anything basic like internet and word processing. The biggest issue with this computer is that i have had to replace the power cable 3 times and have even been shocked once. im not buying cheap aftermarket cables either. these do not hold up well at all and can be very dangerous. also I have had to completely format and reinstall everything 3 times, luckly dell keeps a recovery...

I have had this computer for about 5-6 years. I have had at least that many cataclysmic failures. I had to use the recovery disks several times either because of the laptop or updates that hurt the laptop from Microsoft. The screen was faulty just months after purchase. Had to give up the computer to get the screen replaced. They returned it with a shadow in the start button. Still there. Then the MS update problem. Then the hard drive died. The website wanted an idiotic amount of money for a replacement so I went to Ebay. Dell let me know in no uncertain terms that I was up the creek. I will...