Dell Studio 1555 15.6-Inch Chainlink Black Laptop - Up to 8 Hours 3 Minutes of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) Buy Now

I got my Dell Studio 1555 two days ago, and haven't even turned it on yet (been busy reading all the horrible reviews on the Dell Community site (problems with EVERYTHING).

Anyway, I was absolutely astounded by the moronic design of the adapter/battery charger. The plug-in cord that attaches to the battery on one end and has the three-prong plug on the other (to plug into the wall), is only three feet long! (I've never seen one shorter than six feet before.) It's actually shorter than that because the cord is fix-routed over the length of the adapter, rather than allowing it to come straight out the end of the adapter.

So, if you want to use the adapter by droping the cord through a desk cord slot, you need an extension cord to plug the darn thing into the wall -- absolutely stupid design.Get more detail about Dell Studio 1555 15.6-Inch Chainlink Black Laptop - Up to 8 Hours 3 Minutes of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium).

Buy Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810TZ-4925 13.3-Inch Aluminum Laptop - Over 8 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)

I've researched for about a month whether to buy this Acer 3810TZ or Asus UL30A.
I almost was about to buy UL30A because it has better ram, CPU and Hard drive than Acer 3810T.
However, the reason why I switched to Acer is that UL30A has serious problem with wireless connection.
My primary reason for buying laptop is for the school. I need to bring laptop to class and do research and stuff.
UL30A seems to have problem with wireless dropping signal.
Even though some of the owners claimed that they don't have any issues, it changed my mind to go with Acer 3810T and I think I made a right choice.

This machine works perfectly right out of the box.
It does not look like $600 laptop. looks very sexy!

Here is Windows Experience Index for this machine.

Processor : 4.0
Memory(RAM): 4.7
Graphics : 3.2
Gaming Graphics: 3.2
Primary hard disk: 5.6

Graphics is supposed to be this because Intel graphic cards are not for gaming.

I ran one of the 720p movie and it runs without any lag. great!
One of the thing is 5-1 card reader supports SDHC memory card.
I saw somewhere that people were asking whether SDHC works on this machine or not.
IT WORKS!!
I only had it for few hours but I already know that this will be the best purchase of the year!

Despite the fact it is good machine, there is few cons.

1) Keyboard tracks fingerprints easily. (You cannot touch my laptop while you eating something with your hands!!)
2) As other review mentioned, yes it is hard to press mouse button on this laptop. (I have external mouse so it really doesn't matter)
3) Also sound volume definitely too low, but it doesn't matter to me since I don't plan on see movies that much with this.

I runs really quiet, cool and very light.
Those of who want something like this, I highly recommend this product!


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