My son came on this forum looking for help so please don't say things like "from the 1000 threads he has posted". He is in the military and been dealing with this Inspiron 5150 that he paid $1900.00 for in June 2004. He paid extra money for the in home warranty. That hasn't gone smoothly either. When his computer CRASHED earlier this month we went through everything imaginable to get this thing fixed. It still isn't working right. So again he will sit on the phone trying to get someone out to fix the thing AGAIN. Whatever happened to getting what you pay for. In case alot of you don't know $1900.00 is alot to a military person. He thought he was getting good quality for that kind of money.

I think it is sad to spend that kind of money and to be this frustrated only a few short months after your purchase. This family won't be buying another DELL.

If its history is that, so far - make sure you have a 3-year warranty. If not, upgrade it before the warranty ends.

The top video card for that chassis is the 64M nVidia - since Dell released the 5160 without a new card, and since Intel plans to shortly scrap the mobile P4, I would imagine that to remain the top upgrade permanently.

he has the 5x00 series which doesn't upgrade anything, i think from his like 1000 threads.

I don't think there's a 128M GeForce card offered for any Dell notebook, but what model do you have?