Hi there. I bought an Inspiron 8000 in 2000, it was a great machine. It packed up the first day with a grey lined screen and I was in Rome. I contacted the service dept, they picked it up at 5 pm and It came back fixed after a round trip to Holland at 9am the next morning at my office. It has never gone wrong or hung. I used to run maps with about 5 gigs of data with no problems. I have had 2 Pc since and this is also an Inspiron 15-3521. I still have my inspiron 8K loaded with XP pro, Win2000 Pro and Win 98. Still works great albeit a bit slow. It is 1GHz and 384Mb of ram with an 80GB hard disc. I use it sometimes for old stuff regarding old cellphones and also for making GIFs for them. The battery is long dead. The only problem with it are the hinges. One day the screen just went down. There is nothing broken, I took it apart and the hinges themselves are not tight. Any ideas how to tighten them up?
I saw SSDs 128GB for 9,99 Euros which I thought might be interesting?
Mike