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Dell Diminsion 5150

Sep 19, 2007

Rating: 9 out of 10 (Spectacular)
Pros: Fast, Reliable, Great for Editing
Cons: Bios Lockes can't partiion HDD correctly to much Junk Ware
Opinion:
The Dell Diminsion 5150 has abeen a great PC
After finding out that my Ex Gf was running rune sape I reformatted the HDD and used the soft ware that dell sent me.

On th eplus side I was able to rid myself of the junky trial versions of the cd/dvd rewriter and went with Nero and ShowBiz DVD 2. and Adobie Premier..Hey if it works why fix it lol.

Iwas amazed taht befor KLTV had done there upgrades I was wizzing through and editng software that it made there heads sin they said slow down you'll crah the system.

It never crashed.
It was sleek an d sexy compared to the systesm that The tv station was running at the time.

Now they updated and well..ok..the ell is a lil slow compared to them Macs lol. but not by much.

The DV out was great, the picture was crsip and vlear on Magnavox High def TV iwth the VGA Support.I can't remeber the Unit though it was one that Rent a Center had.

I actaully enjoyed surfing the web with out having to squint at the monitor.

The only con is that Dell And other lock there Bios so you can not correct the HDD Cylynders and Heads.

I have never had a machine that was this nice ever.
I have had no known issues with the exception of running the Linksys wirelss Soft ware taht came with the wireless card..I simply just loaded the driver. that took care of the windows issue.

I think some are getting confused on dual threading vrs Dual Core.

Its a pentium 4 and it has 512 MB of RAM (plnnaing to add 1 gb later)

System Model Dell DM051
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~2793 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A05, 3/31/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 144.06 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

I sitll have no known issues to day