The new Dell Vostros

Umiq88

Has anyone any experience with these the only bad things ive heard is bad sound quaility.

Is true life worth the extra money or what do you think?

The only upgrade i have in that package is the screen in the package below the same specs were an extra 200 euro so it seems a very good price for what it is.

Looking at the 13" model best specs for the money i can come up with is this for €594

BASE Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.1 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1 - English edit
SUPPORT SERVICES 1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day Onsite - No Upgrade Selected edit
LCD 13.3" Widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife™ edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Glossy Black with 1.3 MP Camera edit
MEMORY 2048MB (2x1024) 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
GRAPHICS CARD 128 MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS (64 bit) Graphic Card edit
POWER SUPPLY 65W AC Adaptor (3 Wire) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive including Software edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 6-cell 58 WHr Lithium Ion battery edit
Services & Software
MOBILITY Declined CompleteCare edit
SECURITY SOFTWARE No Security/Anti-Virus Protection edit
Accessories
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE Microsoft® Works 9.0 - English edit
CARRY CASES No Carrying Case edit
BLUETOOTH Dell™ Wireless 360 Bluetooth® Module edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Dell™ Wireless 1505 Wireless-N MiniPCI Card edit
Also included with your system
Gedis Bundle Reference N0713123
Order Information Vostro Laptop 1310 Order - Ireland
Biometric Identification Biometric Fingerprint Reader
Shipping Documents English - Documentation Vostro Laptop
Dell System Media Kit V1310 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
Cables 1 Meter Power Cord (3 Wire) - UK
Keyboard Internal Keyboard - English (QWERTY)
Standard Warranty 1Yr Basic Warranty - Next Business Day

Umiq88

Basically im looking for a comprimise between something sleek and small and something reasonably cheap (arent we all)

id rather comprise on the size than the specs and def nothing over 600

so any other sugestions are very welcome.

pwd

Looks good for the price.
What is the extra money for the truelife? I have a dell xps ith truelife and the pictur is far nicer than on my inspiron which has the same screen size and resolution but without the truelife.
I'd say the sound quality probably is crap, because the xps I got in the last few months and the sound is really tinny on it - the older inspron ha much better sound in fat so it seems like dell have cut back on the internal speakers. If that's an issue you can just get external speakers though. The sound is great on earphones - it's the speakers that are poor not the sound card.
Vostros are a good choice for value-for-money laptops really.

quarryman

I have the 1310. The external speaker in it is AWFUL. I mean terrible. I had to turn on subtitles to watch DVDs. I'm already considering opening it up and replacing it with something better.

Also media buttons aren't great. They are touch sensitive but holding your finger on it does nothing. You basically have to tap it about 20 times to reduce the volume by half.

No other complaints other than that.