I first purchased my Dell Inspiron 2500 in March, 2004 for use in some of my college courses that I was enrolled in at that time. I had been looking for a decent used laptop for a while when I saw it on eBay for about $550. I noticed that I was quite a bit faster than a relatives Dell Cpx J 650 laptop they had me pick out for them.

I had never owned a laptop before this one which I have upgraded slightly by replacing the small amount of ram 128 Mb with 512Mb which sped things noticeably.

This laptop has an Intel P3-M 800 MHz processor that works fast and can run on the battery for about 1-1/2 - 2 hours.

In addition to the ram, I added a 24x/8x CD-RW/DVD combo drive, to watch movies and to record to blank compact discs. I’ve watched a few movies on it, and it is much better picture then a regular television. The laptop has a mini-PCI slot that is currently occupied with a modem / Ethernet combo card. The wireless A/B/G PC-card I have gets used mostly at home to connect to the wireless network i've setup.

[My network setup can be viewed here: /metashare/82cc7c .]

The Inspiron 2500 has all of the usual ports like serial, 2 USB, parallel port on it, instead of having to use a USB port replicator. I use a standard Microsoft Optical mouse which is easier for me to use instead of the built-in mouse touchpad. I have had no need to look for a faster laptop since this Inspiron 2500 currently meets my mobile computing needs.

got feedback? got feedback?

Any feedback you provide is sent to the owner of this FAQ for possible incorporation and shown publically as well.

by AMDUSER edited by fire100
last modified: 2005-08-14 20:12:31