I first purchased my Dell Inspiron 2500 in March, 2004 for use in some of my college courses that I was enrolled in at that time. I had been looking for a decent used laptop for a while when I saw it on eBay for about $550. I noticed that I was quite a bit faster than a relatives Dell Cpx J 650 laptop they had me pick out for them.
I had never owned a laptop before this one which I have upgraded slightly by replacing the small amount of ram 128 Mb with 512Mb which sped things noticeably.
This laptop has an Intel P3-M 800 MHz processor that works fast and can run on the battery for about 1-1/2 - 2 hours.
In addition to the ram, I added a 24x/8x CD-RW/DVD combo drive, to watch movies and to record to blank compact discs. I’ve watched a few movies on it, and it is much better picture then a regular television. The laptop has a mini-PCI slot that is currently occupied with a modem / Ethernet combo card. The wireless A/B/G PC-card I have gets used mostly at home to connect to the wireless network i've setup.
[My network setup can be viewed here: /metashare/82cc7c .]
The Inspiron 2500 has all of the usual ports like serial, 2 USB, parallel port on it, instead of having to use a USB port replicator. I use a standard Microsoft Optical mouse which is easier for me to use instead of the built-in mouse touchpad. I have had no need to look for a faster laptop since this Inspiron 2500 currently meets my mobile computing needs.
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by AMDUSER  edited by fire100
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