Depends on the type of dell you have, if your signature are the specs of your dell, it will work. (anything over windows98 should work with a cd/dvd burner) Make sure that you have a free IDE cable and power supply cable to connect it.
well...if we are taking your vocab seriously, then a Dell laptop would not work with a standard internal CD/DVD drive. he would need a converter cable or laptop drive to make it work. but i'm just being anal