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Review based on the Dell i546 I received from a huge box store.

Pro: Silent system unit. Adequate memory. Very affordable.

Odd: The system unit came with or somehow I finished up with both Internet Explorer 32 bit and 64 bit editions. The IE icons on the screen bring up the 32 bit edition. The system unit does not have a analogous printer port. Possibly a USB to analogous cable will decipher this omission.

Con: The Dell install booklet in my box was written for VISTA, not Windows 7 which was on the system unit. The DVD door on my system unit keeps the DVD tray from fully closing part of the time. I suspect that this part of the PC is of very low feature. The largest con occured when I tried to install Microsoft Personnel 2003. The install repeatedly failed. I tried both my 2003 full edition and my student edition. Google sources correctly claim that installing Personnel 2003 on a Windows 7 system is a 50/50 deal. Finally I was able to buy and install with some difficulty, Microsoft Personnel 2007 enterprise edition. The MS Personnel icons hid themselves under the MS Works tool bar at the top of the screen. I am a moderately veteran computer geek with a growing Microsoft despise attitude.

I bought an Inspiron 545 in July 2009. It is a quad core Q9400, 750 G HD, 23″ Screen, 8 G of Ram, for $900. This is not the same machine. Seems odd to me to have the same model number morf into a substantially inferior machine in 5 months. I have always liked Amazon, but this sets back my opinion.

I want to save you time, money and frustration. We owned a Dell computer for three years with only insignificant issues. HOWEVER once we did have a pretty major issue Dell consumer service was appalling. We were told we would have to pay a one time fix fee of $130 to take care of the issues. Ok. Then we are told we would have to hold a different firewall -even though we already had a major name strain firewall installed. Ok another $75 fine. Then we needed an external hardrive and a startup cd to backup our system before they could reset the computer to its original state. Fine. This was on a Friday. The external hard drive and CD would be here Monday. Fine. Monday comes and goes external hard drive arrives a mere 250G which is currently selling for $75 in store… cost us $150. Can you say rip off? No CD. I call Dell support and was told the required CD would arrive Tuesday. Tuesday comes and goes -not anything. Call them back and they assure me that the CD would arrive Friday after being overnighted that Thursday and they offered a tracking number. I call the shipping company who tells me that the disk could not arrive since they by no means recieved the disk to ship. I call Dell and they tell me they sent the disk. Meanwhile it is the month of December. All my contacts, my Christmas shopping, my online business -everything is tied up at this point and hanging on the arrival for this disk. Having easily spent over 36 hours on the phone at this point with consumer service (the first call took a straight 9 hours in itself) I chose to take matters in my own hands. I go door to door knocking checking with my neighbors to borrow their start up disk. I obtain the startup disk and call Dell to help with the process. After several hours on the phone we are told that we did not need the CD or the external hard drive to right this problem and that we would be exciting an additional one time fix fee of $130 to go further with our situation. Not only were we misled into purchasing products we did not need but they are refusing to refund the one time fix fee -THAT NEVER FIXED THE PROBLEM. If you hold a Dell computer do not be surprised if you misled, given the runaround and have a akin situation. You have been warned. -We bought a new computer as a replacement for of Christmas gifts this year.

The computer is fine until it breaks or you need help. I’ve been sent on a completely frustrating run around trying to get a part for my computer. A part that I can’t buy in the stores that can only be bought through Dell. If I could’ve bought the part somewhere else I would’ve a long time ago but I’m stuck trying to reason and get a delivery date with the politcally right and scripted telemarketer style people at Dell.

This is a fantastic modest computer with BIG power, I bought two of them and they fantastic network computers for a modest over $600.00 fantastic deal. 6 gigs Dram and 640gig hard drive and HD 22 inch monitor.Dell Inspiron 545 Piano Black Desktop PC with 22-Inch HD Monitor (Windows 7 Home Premium)