Dell Inspiron N5030 iN5030-1723OBK 15.6-Inch Laptop (Obsidian Black) Reviews

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I had tried to order this laptop with the 10 key layout version, but was told it had been sold out. We opted for this one and it is a good laptop for our needs. We had a copy of windows office that we installed, because it only comes with a bare bones trial version, hence the price.

I can have Excel, Internet Explorer, and Windows Media player all working at same time without problems. Or my daughter can play games online and it works fine. Not great, but fine.

It burns DVDs and has a webcam for Skyping. So it has almost all the stuff, just not the 10 keypad. Battery life is good. For a regular user this is a solid laptop for the price.

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I like the new laptop. Always had good service from the Dell desktop we had. Had a Toshiba laptop but it was junk from the get-go. The Dell is plenty fast for my needs web surfing, e-mail, a few spreadsheets, etc. A couple of complaints I adjusted the touchpad but it still seems way too sensitive. Also could do without McAfee popping up every little while warning me of how much danger I'll be in once the 30 days of protection expire.

Overall I'm very satisfied. It was an easy set-up out of the box and so far does everything I need it to do and very well.

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i will have to say this is the worst laptop i have ever owned. i had a problem with it after about a month of owning it. some of the keys would stop operating at random times. the two buttons used to navigate the mouse totally quit working. so, i have to double click the touch pad to be able to do anything, which is a pain because it calls for 3 or 4 clicks. i had to buy a wireless mouse to be able to navigate effectively on the computer. my main complaint i have is about a week after owning the laptop it wouldn't charge at all. it would say the electrical current is low and it would operate slow if i plugged it in. come to find out, i have to have it in the same place every time i plug it in and the laptop to charge. which is about a 20 minute task each time i want to charge my laptop. the charger is a circular one so i had to spend about 3 hours finding the location that it will charge in order for me to mark the location. all in all, a really awful buy and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone ever.

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I share the opinion with other reviewers and can state that this is one of the worst laptops I have ever owned and I've owned about 15 in my lifetime. The only other that was worse was another Dell. They have really gone downhill from what I once considered to be a decent product.

The battery stopped holding a charge and the power supply had to be replaced early on. Worst of all the LCD just stopped working one day and displayed nothing but a white screen. I checked around and many others had run into this same issue. After 2.5 years of use the machine was worthless. To make matters worse, I'm a software consultant who bills by the hour and these failures led to a loss in billable hours.

Family and friends come to me when they're looking for new computers and I can state with certainty that I won't recommend Dell to anyone again.

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I have this laptop with windows 7 on it, and it has given me more trouble than any computer I've owned before or since. The first problem I had was a power supply problem fried the hard drive. Oh well, these things happen from time to time. Called dell support and got a new harddrive installed (which they incorrectly assured me would have all the original programs on it). Went about my day. Problem two arose a little while later. The computer completely locked up. Hard restart resulted in windows not being able to boot. Startup repair does nothing, whether run from the reinstallation disc or from the computer recovery partition. Since the computer was no longer under warrenty by this time, I recovered my files using a drive enclosure, formated, and reinstalled windows. which worked for about a week. Just enough time to get it just how I wanted before it did exactly the same thing. Looking to replace the harddrive, but I don't have high hopes for that solution.

The computer doesn't come with much processing power or ram compared to most decent computers now, and won't be doing much more than internet browsing and using microsoft office. Dell support is crap and their build quality leaves something to be desired in anything but their flagship products.

tl;dr: this computer is not reccomended