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0.5 stars
"Worst computer I have owned."
Pros: There was nothing I could find about this turkey to recommend it.
Cons: Simply does not function. I spent most of my time talking to Dell technicians and trying to make it work.
Summary: My PC experience started with the tiny Osborne decades ago. Since then, I have owned and operated many, many computers. One of them, a Dell Dimension 8200, is the best computer I have ever owned. This one, the Dell Dimension C521 with Vista Home, is, hands down, easily the worst computer I have owned. It is unbelievably slow and remains hopelessly fragmented with the registry in turmoil. One out of four times after shutdown, it will not reboot from the hard drive and the CD must be used. I finally ran out of patience and returned it. This dude is a world class loser.
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It's that it comes with Vista installed. I had many problems. In the end, I managed to format the hard drive (takes a while) and installed XP Pro. Now it works fine, is much faster and no glitches. So, for the price it's very good value-the 'all in one' printer that came with it is a great bonus.
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This package was great value-the printer/scanner/copier alone is great. However Vista Basic is dire. I wiped the drive and instaled XP. The driver CD installed all the drivers, one at a time. Now the C521 runs much faster than when it arrived. Just now need to get a half-size PCI graphics card and it will be a better PC!
