Dell 17 Reviews

Average Customer Rating:

4.4 out of 5

890 of 1013 (87%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.

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Overall Rating:

Computer: Inspiron 17

Date: 06 May 2010

Reviewed by: SteveGarn (Leicester, England)
Level of expertise: Average

Title:
Great Laptop

Product Uses:
browsing net

Review:
This is my first laptop, I've always been put off by the small screens before. The transition from desktop to this laptop has been easy. The picture quality is perfect, both in applications and playing media. It is so quick and very easy to use.
DELL delivered very quickly also.
I'm just about to buy another one for the rest of the family!

Overall Rating:

Computer: Studio 17

Date: 13 August 2010

Reviewed by: Marek (Miami, Florida)
Level of expertise: Good

Title:
Outstanding Laptop, Exceeded Expectations!

Product Uses:
office applications photoshop, entertainment movies music

Review:
This is my first Dell laptop, and after owning and being satisfied with other brands was a bit reluctant to make a switch. However after reading many favorable independent reviews decided on the Studio 17. Dell allowed me to customize the laptop exactly how I wanted and offered my final configuration at a very competitive price. I have now had the laptop for a month and am very impressed. I use it several hours a day as it is my business as well as personal computer and it goes with me everywhere. The build quality is outstanding! The case is sturdy and always feels solid including the hinges. Performance wise the i5-450m processor with 4GB DDR3 memory is lightning fast. The LED back-lit screen is crystal clear, keyboard is very responsive with great feed back and the keyboard back light option is outstanding especially when in low lit meeting rooms and conferences. Has well exceeded my expectations. I would definitely recommend the Studio 17 to anyone and already have to many friends and colleagues. Customer service and sales staff are top notch! Great job DELL!

Overall Rating:

Computer: Studio 17

Date: 13 January 2011

Reviewed by: NMFORDMAN (Albuquerque, NM)
Level of expertise: Good

Title:
Great keyboard and so much more

Product Uses:
mostly ms office

Review:
I purchased this expressly for the backlit keyboard but I am surprised at all the other features it comes packed with.
This laptop has a solid feel, albeit neither small or terribly lightweight. The screen is clean and bright and the graphics and colors are fairly accurate.
I would have scored it higher if not for it's speed, you could take a nap while this thing shuts down and even with 3 gigs of RAM it chews up it's memory quickly. Some of this is do to the amount of pre-installed software that loads at start-up.

This is my second Dell and I must say compared to HP they are more solid in feel and construction.

Overall Rating:

Computer: XPS 17

Date: 08 March 2011

Reviewed by: Abakiz

Title:
Great laptop

Product Uses:
website design, software development

Review:
Although it doesn't come with a 1080p screen 900p surfices. The sound quality is amazing also for a 17" laptop the battery life ain't too bad. (3-5hours)

I tested this gaming performance and it comes close too my old desktop 460GTX which is very very impressive.

Although it took quiet awhile to get to me (3 weeks) it was well worth the wait. You won't find this value for money anywhere else on the internet, 17" laptops usually cost a lot more.

The keyboard is very easy to type on and feels very nice. The whole finish is nice!

All in all a very good laptop and I'm very happy with my purchase which was worth the wait.

Overall Rating:

Computer: Inspiron 17

Date: 20 April 2011

Reviewed by: jTfromCO (Littleton, CO)
Level of expertise: Expert

Title:
Dell Outlet Purchases

Product Uses:
Travel, desktop replacement, light-duty gaming

Review:
This is the 2nd Inspiron 1750 I've purchased and probably the 4th or 5th PC I've purchased from the Dell Outlet (a couple of Dell Mini laptops, one desktop, one Laser printer). Each time, the product is delivered quickly and the 'to my door' price is outstanding. This 1750 is for home use, nothing too extraordinary, and it fits the bill just fine for that. With 17.3" screens, and the ability to connect an external monitor (or monitors), there's just not much of a reason for buying a desktop any longer, except for extreme gaming purposes. Overall - good product at a great price, delivered to my door in under a week each time.

jT

Overall Rating:

Computer: Inspiron 17

Date: 15 July 2011

Reviewed by: kcman64 (CT)
Level of expertise: Expert

Title:
Intergrated WebCam useless

Review:
Overall the Inspiron 1764 laptop is decent. The Wide screen is nice. The performance of the laptop seems a little slow.

The Integrated Webcam is really frustrating. Most of the time it doesn't work and I have to play around with drivers and software installation to resolve issues. Tech support was not help as they just instructed me to do what I was already doing by myself. I wish Dell would come up with a good working patch.

Hate the in laid touch pad, can't rest my hands anyway on the front of the keypad if I want to use the touch pad. This I believe was a major design flaw.

CTdarter

Overall Rating:

Computer: Inspiron 17

Date: 16 November 2011

Reviewed by: clairm (US)
Level of expertise: Good

Title:
Inspiron 17R

Product Uses:
home use

Review:
Pros: Pretty Lightweight for the size of a 17" screen. Screen is crisp and Clear. Number pad is off to the side.

Cons: Having troulbe with touch pad have contacted Dell on problem several times. Had pad and board replaced and still haveing trouble. If you are and american and have trouble understanding broken english Tech support is hard to understand. Asked to speak to an American and that cost extra. I have spent over 2 hours with techs on this matter. Key pad does not light up.

Overall Rating:

Computer: Studio 17

Date: 07 December 2011

Reviewed by: Notbuyingagain
Level of expertise: Average

Title:
Extremely poor quality and lifespan

Product Uses:
Gaming, school work

Review:
This laptop started on a bad note. The second 320G hard drive I ordered was in the case, but had never been wired or screwed in-I didn't find this out until the keyboard failed. I opened the case and the extra drive fell on my desk. I liked the computer in general, although it was loud and ran extremely hot, the speakers are not useful beyond talking volume, and the performance was good. This was to change...

I bought this computer in August 2009. I usually move it from my desk only a couple times a week(I don't walk around with it a lot), and have so far had the following problems:

Top row of button either does not work or flickers and works inconsistently. I have reattached the ribbon but it does not stay. This is annoying because there is no other physical compact disk ejection button.

Keyboard failed, was as if holding down alt key without physical contact continuously, had to replace keyboard to fix it.

Wired in 1st hard drive was completely corrupted, had to transfer everything to a new hard drive, re install operating system. Physical hard drive was damaged, not operating system.

Graphics card freezes randomly and sometimes recovers, sometimes does not. It does this almost every time pressure beyond a keystroke takes place left of the touch pad.

USB slots are loose, and you sometimes must reinsert several times in some to get a connection.

One of the headphone slots (of two) no longer works.

Worst of all, the case is very flimsy for such a large laptop, and it and the hinges have started to loosen, so it flexes a little more than I would like it too.

All these things happened around the expiration of the warranty, in the last year or so.

I have enjoyed:
-reasonably long battery life with extended battery
-good game performance
-An easy transition from vista to windows 7
- Laptops ability to heat a small room.

I spent a good deal on this laptop, and most likely will not be buying any more dells because of it.

Overall Rating:

Computer: Studio 17

Date: 08 December 2011

Reviewed by: Robert089 (UK)
Level of expertise: Expert

Title:
Very Very disappointed with this laptop.

Product Uses:
Gaming, software development, video production, general home use

Review:
ok the pros.... as far as I can see there are non
the cons:
It has 1 2cm fan to cool the WHOLE laptop!!!! This computer has a core i7 and a medium spec graphics card what were dell thinking!!!! I can hardly use the laptop it is so hot. It randomly re-boots and blue screens. Dell have tried and failed to fix these problems, they have replaced the motherboard twice and the fan and heat sink 2 or 3 times... Also the cheap hard drive that came in the laptop originally broke in LESS THAN 1 YEAR!!!!

Overall Rating:

Computer: XPS 17

Date: 12 February 2012

Reviewed by: foresightref

Title:
Bought 2 and both have usb 3.0 disconnect problem

Product Uses:
Travel

Review:
Both were great except that the USB 3.o disconnect after about 15 minutes. Have to reboot to get working again and then they disconnect again. Device manager shows normal operation but no connection is possible. Only 1 usb 2 on board. Went for hours with tech support and no resolution. Sent one unit back and am thinking about the second. Hate to tell a friend that his computer is no good.

Overall Rating:

Computer: XPS 17

Date: 17 February 2012

Reviewed by: RobWithbrokenxps (UK)
Level of expertise: Expert

Title:
Don't buy this dell

Product Uses:
Gaming, school work, office, skype

Review:
It has had more problems in the last 30 days than most laptops would have in there whole lives!
1. It's NOT a good gaming laptop, the graphics card isn't that powerful, oh and it over heats to just under 90'C, so unless you have a wireless games controller you won't even be able to touch it while gaming.
2.It has a really loud fan that is constantly changing speeds making it really annoying to use.
3. The blu-ray/DVD Drive is really lose and keeps opening and feels like it's going to fall out.
4. The USB 3.0 ports randomly disconnect.
5. The Audio Drivers keep crashing, so you have to reboot or and application that requires sound crashes to.
6. Most of the ports are at the back of the laptop making it difficult to plugin/inplug USB 3 devices, HDMI cable, the power cable and Ethernet.
Those are most of the problems I have experienced so far.
On the brighter side dell support was happy to help, they sent a technician round to replace the heat sink, fan and USB 3 ports. When that made no difference they gave me a refund.
I would still think about buying a dell but not a high end laptop.

Overall Rating:

Computer: XPS 17

Date: 10 May 2012

Reviewed by: SecuritySolutions

Title:
USB 3.0 ....NOT!

Product Uses:
business

Review:
I thought this was a great laptop until I tried using the USB 3.0 ports. They randomly lockup and you must reboot to get them back, although they just lockup again minutes later. If you need USB 3.0 functionality then this machine is NOT for you!

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