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Sorry it took so long to review this, have a lot going on. Anyways here goes.
I received the vostro a couple days ago and the first thing I can say is that I love the build. The case is durable and looks good in all black. I also Love the keyboard, I am not a good typer but i can type fast without looking at the keyboard on this which is something i could never do before on a laptop and still have trouble on other keyboards.
The screen looks incredible. I upgraded to the badass screen with truelife and I do not see any graininess. The screen is viewable from all angles, looks great up close and at a distance.
The DVD burner burned a 4 gig dvd as fast as I would expect it to at max speed.
Vista is running great, I have had very few issues with programs that were not compatible and could find updates for all but one relatively fast. Vista business has some interesting things, but most are more novelties that are not too important. I do think that the gadget bar is pretty useful. At least for a person working for a small business. Keeps you updated with news, currency, stock and other things really easily.
The webcam is pretty good. As good as I have seen any web cam but I don't know any specific tests for it. It blurs if I move fast but otherwise looks good. Also has settings to view what is happening in the webcam from other locations very easily. I don't know if I would ever use it but it sounds interesting.
Battery life I have not tested, the few times I have had it unplugged the battery was draining pretty quick, but i was installing programs, downloading, and other things at once
I have not installed any games on it yet because I just quit WoW and am waiting for certain other games to come out at the moment so I cannot jugde it in actual gameplay, but I did run 3dmark and pcmark. 3dmark was a score of 2937, it seemed that the cpu tests lagged more than the graphics test which kind of confused me because my cpu rating is much above my graphics one in the windows index, but I don't know enough about these tests to know why. My pcmark score was 5293. Also the 3dmark test was taken in a 1280 x 1024 resolution because I had the free demo version
My Windows index is 4.5
Processor 5.1
Memory 4.8
Graphics 4.5
Gaming graphics 5.1
Primary hard disk 4.8
pcmark link: http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=13&XLID=0&UID=10374083
3dmark link: http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=10373951
All in all I love this laptop. I bought it as a desktop replacement with decent gaming capabilities and I feel that I got what I was looking for.
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Thanks for the review there are so few people that I've seen that have gotten their 1700 or even bought one. I switched from the 1720 because of price plus I was getting that in black anyways so I figured be nice if it was ALL Black looking forward to getting mine
1700 Quick review
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