New Dell Inspiron Desktop (i3847-4616BK)
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This is My Opinion About This Product
After I buy this New Dell Inspiron Desktop (i3847-4616BK) (Personal Computers)
If you plug it in and fire it up, it's great. It ships with Windows 8 Home. Its a great value.
PROS:
Easy to setup
Fast
Inexpensive
Quiet
built-in wireless N and bluetooth
CONS:
few expansion slots (only 1 PCI-E)
only 2 memory slots
Video Card is just okay
no RAID support
Windows 8 Home doesn't let you downgrade to Windows 7
BIOS lacks granularity
There is very little documentation for this model on Dell's website that means:
[...]
* Its hard to find the drivers or even to get details regarding the hardware if you install another OS
Doesn't ship with Installation media, there is no restore partition and there is no product key printed on the computer (anywhere)
* That means you'd better have a way to back up the OS. Window 8 doesnt offer a "create system image" option either.
The computer is pretty picky about the hard drive it will accept.
* I figured I'd just pull the Hard drive, stick in another one I had laying around, install Windows 7 from a disk and clone the original drive once I got Winodws 7 up and running.
* The computer didn't recognize my hard drive (any of the ones I had laying around which were all 7200rpm 1TB SATA drives)
* I had to enable legacy boot in the BIOS and then even after I reenabled it and booted from the hard drive it came with, I had a message at the bottom of the screen stating that my Windows 8 installation was invalid.
* I couldn't get the thing to recogize any hard drive other than the one it came with so eventually, I just installed Windows 7 right over top of 8. Obviously if and when I decide to upgrade, I will have to purchase a new license (for all of the aforementioned reasons)
PROS:
Easy to setup
Fast
Inexpensive
Quiet
built-in wireless N and bluetooth
CONS:
few expansion slots (only 1 PCI-E)
only 2 memory slots
Video Card is just okay
no RAID support
Windows 8 Home doesn't let you downgrade to Windows 7
BIOS lacks granularity
There is very little documentation for this model on Dell's website that means:
[...]
* Its hard to find the drivers or even to get details regarding the hardware if you install another OS
Doesn't ship with Installation media, there is no restore partition and there is no product key printed on the computer (anywhere)
* That means you'd better have a way to back up the OS. Window 8 doesnt offer a "create system image" option either.
The computer is pretty picky about the hard drive it will accept.
* I figured I'd just pull the Hard drive, stick in another one I had laying around, install Windows 7 from a disk and clone the original drive once I got Winodws 7 up and running.
* The computer didn't recognize my hard drive (any of the ones I had laying around which were all 7200rpm 1TB SATA drives)
* I had to enable legacy boot in the BIOS and then even after I reenabled it and booted from the hard drive it came with, I had a message at the bottom of the screen stating that my Windows 8 installation was invalid.
* I couldn't get the thing to recogize any hard drive other than the one it came with so eventually, I just installed Windows 7 right over top of 8. Obviously if and when I decide to upgrade, I will have to purchase a new license (for all of the aforementioned reasons)
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