I purchased an Inspiron 1501 laptop from Dell in June 2007. When I was on dell.com website I upgraded the memory to 1gb and upgraded the cd/dvd drive to a rw for both. I had to get Windows Vista with it and was not crazy about it but that was my only choice and it was Windows Vista Basic and to upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium was costly. I had the computer for a short time and it started acting up. I kept calling the tech support line and got long hold times and people who couldn't speak English. I finally got someone who had me run... read full review »