Contemplating on buying a Dell Vostro 1000 laptop

[oneMhz]

I'm new here - my first post

Anyways....I am contemplating on buying a Dell Vostro 1000 laptop with
2 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD and an Athlon 64 dual core at I'm guessing at 1.5 -1.8 ghz.

Is this good for the following: OpenOffice (word processing), listening to music, internet, using gimp (fancy drawing program), --I'm going to run Ubuntu with Windows Vista Basic.

Also tell me if you own or have owned a Dell Vostro or a Dell laptop and tell me a little bit about your experiences.

Thanks!

 

[concorde]

I don't think it's a good idea, in my opinion. What are you paying? $3 - 400.00?
There has to be something wrong with this picture. Hmmmmm.... can I say
maybe a cheap LCD, terrible keyboard, third-rate hard drive? Poor customer support? VISTA?

I had a Dell Inspiron, a step-up to the Vosotro, and I sold it to my nephew as I didn't care for it. The store only had these in stock if I wanted a Turion dual core pronto. Couldn't take it back because I installed Linux over the current Win installation (even after offering to put it back on via the restore DVD) so I sold it. I sold it because the keys felt cheap, the backlight and screen was sooooo poorly made I could see the light bleed at the bottom of the screen, the thing was a portable Jenn-Air range. My nephew wanted it so I said, OK, have it. Don't say I didn't warn you about this pile of junk. He loves his new Inspiron but that will change. And when it changes he will resent his uncle. Not my fault.

I don't like laptops for these reasons. They cost more and many of the components are not replaceable without equaling the cost of the whole machine.
The Vostro is cheaper than the Inspiron, so it'll be worse.