Hominym Jul 2, 2009

I've been using this laptop for about a year. Aesthetically speaking, it's better than some of HP's offerings. However, the fake-silver paint on the trackpad buttons wears off after awhile, leaving an unattractive grey blemish. The outside of my model is an attractive black matte...

mobileandsecure Oct 7, 2009

I bought the 1525 with as much extras as I could afford at the time: 3GBs RAM, 250GB HD, DVD combo burner, 8in1 card reader, extended life battery. I use this laptop daily. It runs Vista Home Premium 32bit on the phyical hardware, and has Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9 desktop running on VMWare...

shakyone Oct 20, 2010

Factory Hard drive (with Windows Vista) failed after 18 months. Bought a new one, installed Windows 7. Life is much better. Was a pain to use an Upgrade on. Had to set the BIOS to IDE mode for the hard drive to install XP, then switched it back to AHCI for the Windows7 install. Most people...

frodex Jan 21, 2010

I have an Inspiron 1525 for about an year and it is an greate machine. I use it for work with office documents, programming in java and .net an for general multimidia use,like watching movies and listering music. My only complain is with the graphics card that is an little limitted. I can´t play...

nlgrant May 22, 2011

ordered with upgrades. longer life battery, vista ultimate and 2gb mem