Dell Inspiron 17 i17RV-5455BLK 17.3-Inch Deals

By DEB STEPHENS (BLOOMINGTON, MN United States)
This review is from: Dell Inspiron 17 i17RV-5455BLK 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black Matte with Textured Finish) (Personal Computers)
This Dell model is easy to boot up and very fast. Doesn't have a lot of games loaded but offers many Free apps to download. No Microsoft office loaded so I downloaded Apache Open Office FREE from Amazon.

It's a bit noisy when it's charging but it I'll swap that for a slow computer any day!

Kept waiting for a good deal on a Dell with Windows 7 but couldn't wait forever. Amazon had this Dell $150 off so it was time to order. Windows 8 isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The tutorial helps make sense of the screens and icons. Once you figure out that the dial on a wireless mouse scrolls the screen horizontally it's easy to navigate!

 By Yannan Zhuang "salemyz" (Salem, Oregon, USA) -
This review is from: Dell Inspiron 17 i17RV-5455BLK 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black Matte with Textured Finish) (Personal Computers)
I purchased mine from Costco, not from Amazon, but would like to share what I know about this unit. This laptop, at its configuration, is a good price.

The most significant good things about it are:
(1) it runs pretty well, and does not generate too much heat. The bottom of the unit is only lukewarm after 24 hours of use (one reason being the hard drive is running at only 5400 RPM, not at 7200);
(2) it has wired, wireless, and a blue-tooth connections, and an SD memory card reader (good for trasnferring images from cameras);
(3) upgrade of memory is very easy, as both memory slots are easily accessible at the bottom (side by side with the laptop hard drive).

The bad thing is:
You cannot install Windows 7 side by side with Windows 8, or even over it, even after you shrink the size of the C: drive to create a new partition. The hard drive has two hidden partitions before the C: drive (So C: drive is actually the 3rd partition). These hidden partitions are storage area for system restore files, and are valuable if you have to restore or recover the system. But their presence makes attempts to install Windows 7 impossible, until I manually removed all partitions and recreated C: on the first partition. (Then I was able to install Windows 7, and am running Windows 7 64 bit without any issues.)

By John H. Traylor -
This review is from: Dell Inspiron 17 i17RV-5455BLK 17.3-Inch Laptop (Black Matte with Textured Finish) (Personal Computers)
Does pretty much what I want it to, but so does my chromebook. My main problem is with windows 8. Some features are fine, but I can't seem to reach my printer. It was OK at first, but not now. I can't figure it out because windows 8 is so foreign. Everything else gets a four star.