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Dell Studio 17

By Ty Pendlebury on 30 September 2008

The Dell Studio 1735 is a decent laptop which is best for multimedia and casual gaming, but the glossy, hi-res screen isn't suited to general usage.

Editor's rating:7.8 User rating:7

Comments (8)

  • johnboy21bc gave 7/10 on 07/09/2009 01:01

    • Good: Great Looking,Windows Vista
    • Bad: Graphics Card,RAM,Scratches

    A Good Laptop,Fast To Start With Slows Down After A While Same With Most Laptops,Seems Easy To Scratch But Maybe Thats Just Me!Screen Rubbish Outside.
    Overall A Good Laptop For Office Use!

  • Dusty gave a review on 21/07/2009 05:09

    • Good: Everything except the Blue Screen of Death
    • Bad: Blue Screen of Death

    We bought this laptop about 2 months ago and everytime we do an update, windows, it goes into recovery mode. We have called Dell and they keep having us do a back up or have us recover to a previous time. Frustrating! But all in all everything else has worked great.

  • rog gave a review on 08/04/2009 12:37

    • Good: nice screen, fast as hell with 6gb, 7200 drive
    • Bad: sound!!! and sound!

    I have a four year old dell inspiron, and its sound is way better than my studio... You can only put it a little over half volume and it starts to deistort! and it sounds really tinny. Great laptop, but the sound is terrible.. oh I have an eSATA on mine, i didnt ask for it. and I have 64 bit vista... But I am canadian, I guess they offer different stuff!

  • Sup gave 9/10 on 30/09/2008 18:38

    Dells are unbeatable value. Disagree about 1920x1080 being too much for normal use - I'm using a Vostro 1510 with 1920x1200 res 15.4" display and it's brilliant.

  • styleman gave 1/10 on 16/09/2008 16:44

    I have ordered one aswell and I have to wait a month.
    I got the same excuse about parts.
    Pretty pathetic, considering they are a major computer seller.
    Unfortunately I can't find a laptop that looks as good as the studio.

  • nativea gave 8/10 on 08/07/2008 23:14

    my advise is go to tesco pc world as going to dell direct you have to wait a month for delivery there feeble excuse is we are waiting for parts.MMMMMMM

  • Blah gave 8/10 on 04/07/2008 16:59

    • Good: good looks
      decent specs
      keyboard backlighting
    • Bad: a bit thick at the rear
      dell wireless, ati graphics, 32 bit vista

    at that price, it's worth paying a bit more for the XPS line

  • Lazymonkey44 gave 9/10 on 03/07/2008 22:17

    • Good: HDMI, Looks great, Cheap
    • Bad: 4GB RAM and nor 64 bit vista?

    Looks Stunning, i am wanting the 15" one!

    (Also, i want to give it 8.5)

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