Dell Laptop Inspiron 2200 (N09221) (merged) [CLOSED]

delluver

I took advantage of a similar offer. Turned out I got an Inspiron 2200 1.4 Ghz (15" XGA LCD display) for £385.40 free delivery and a FREE PRINTER. It was a toss up between that or a 1.4 Ghz Inspiron 1200 (14.1" XGA LCD display) for £321 with a Dell Wireless 1350 Wireless LAN PC-Card 802.11b/g 54Mbps, for the Inspiron 1200 for £26.00 (£347 inc. VAT, free delivery).

I am very happy with my new laptop

Mark_Ward

Ended up with a secondhand Dell T610 for £570. It was more than I was intending to spend, but came with:-

Pentium M 750 1.86ghz 2MB L2
Centrino Chipset
40gb Drive
512mb 533MHz DDR2 Ram
UMA Graphics 14.1 SXGA+ (1400 x 1050)
Wireless b & g
6 Cell Lithium Long Life Battery
Windows XP Pro (SP2)
Modem
Warrantee until July 2008.

It's lighter than the cheaper oprions I was after and checks all our other requirements boxes.

Best of all, it arrived completely unused, I had to do all the windows first registration authentification. It did have a small scratch on the top of the case (near the Dell logo) and the packaging had clearly been previously opened, but all accessories were still sealed in their bags. I'm guessing that the company buys a LOT of these and this one should have been returned as "damaged". In every other respect it was perfect though, no dead pixels etc.

Quite happy, but would have been nicer not to have to buy it at all.

Mark.

delluver

Going going... nearly gone!

delluver

delluver wrote:

Going going... nearly gone!

Gone! Went over night along with the Inspiron 6000, 512mb ram, 15.4" widescreen, free priner all in for £514.

alykhalil

got one and paid for yesterday :

- DELL inspiron 2200
- 1.40Ghz
- 8x DVD driver
- No printer (saved me £30, will get 1 from ebay for dirt)
- 512 RAM
- wifi card
- 90 days option
- cost total : £477

thank you

delluver

alykhalil wrote:

got one and paid for yesterday :

- DELL inspiron 2200
- 1.40Ghz
- 8x DVD driver
- No printer (saved me £30, will get 1 from ebay for dirt)
- 512 RAM
- wifi card
- 90 days option
- cost total : £477

thank you

Great! I also ordered one for my friend less 256mb ram. £385 and free printer. Enjoy.

alykhalil

finally went for dell inspiron 2200 (received it yesterday) :

- dvd writer
- wifi card
- 512 ram
- 40gb HDD

just to find out that there is no windows installation CD. yes there is an option on the laptop in one of dell's program ; dell accessories, dell OS recovery CD but any CD-R i put in the drive it dont recognise...anyway to store the CD files on the Hard disk 1st and then create a CD ?

i do have a windows XP boot CD but it worries me as to where will i get the original drivers from ? + i am unable to partition the hard drive..

thank you

delluver

alykhalil wrote:

finally went for dell inspiron 2200 (received it yesterday) :

- dvd writer
- wifi card
- 512 ram
- 40gb HDD

just to find out that there is no windows installation CD. yes there is an option on the laptop in one of dell's program ; dell accessories, dell OS recovery CD but any CD-R i put in the drive it dont recognise...anyway to store the CD files on the Hard disk 1st and then create a CD ?

i do have a windows XP boot CD but it worries me as to where will i get the original drivers from ? + i am unable to partition the hard drive..

thank you

The drivers are downloadable via the Dell support site by using your Service Tag that came with your laptop.

Partition the hard drive with XP BOOT DISKS downloadable via the Microsoft website... it's an executable download - you then run it and the boot disks will be made with your assistance... you need 6 diskettes. (lol, that's all dependant on weather you have a floppy drive of course. I have an external one that I use with all my machines. I can't live without it). If you do that, don't forget to change to boot order in BIOS so the floppy boots first.

Or, if you have a copy of Win 95/98/Me you could partition the hard drive that way with FAT32 as if you were reinstalling them over XP from scratch - you'd have no option but to reformat the HD, then don't go through with the installation and start over with NTFS. This has worked for me in the past without a floppy drive.

alykhalil

delluver wrote:

The drivers are downloadable via the Dell support site by using your Service Tag that came with your laptop.

Partition the hard drive with XP BOOT DISKS downloadable via the Microsoft website... it's an executable download - you then run it and the boot disks will be made with your assistance... you need 6 diskettes. (lol, that's all dependant on weather you have a floppy drive of course. I have an external one that I use with all my machines. I can't live without it).

true said i do not have a floppy drive...lol...so i am left stranded....i would somehow...somehow love to partition my hard drive....thks

alykhalil

delluver wrote:

The drivers are downloadable via the Dell support site by using your Service Tag that came with your laptop.

Partition the hard drive with XP BOOT DISKS downloadable via the Microsoft website... it's an executable download - you then run it and the boot disks will be made with your assistance... you need 6 diskettes. (lol, that's all dependant on weather you have a floppy drive of course. I have an external one that I use with all my machines. I can't live without it).

to download drivers and utilities for dell inspiron..do i visit the dell.com support or dell.co.uk support (if there is one) ? thks