Dell Inspiron 1526 Released

The Dell Inspiron 1526, the PC makerâ€™s new AMD-powered 15.4-inch notebook, is now available.

The Inspiron 1526 is priced at $749 after instant savings and can be purchased through Best Buy. It comes with the AMD Turion 64 X2 processor at 2GHz, 2GB of system memory expandable to 4GB, a 250GB hard drive, DVD burner, and the ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 integrated graphics, which manages the notebook’s 15.4″ 1280-by-800 glossy display.

According to the product specifications, the 1526 has a built-in 2-megapixel web camera, an 802.11b/g wireless module, and Eternet LAN and 56k modem connections. There are also four USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, 8-in-1 media card reader, Firewire port, and VGA and S-Video outputs.

The Inspiron 1526 has the same chassis design as the Intel-based 1525. It weighs 6.2 pounds and is 1″â€“1.5″ thin, which is lower than 1.47″-1.65″ in previous Inspiron 1521 series. The laptop comes in seven different colors and runs Windows Vista Home Premium operating system.

The new notebook is not available through the Dell’s official online store.

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Posted on February 18th, 2008
In: Dell Inspiron Laptops, Dell Laptops & Tablet PCs, Laptop News
By Danijel Zivkovic

Comments on Dell Inspiron 1526 Released

W. Campbell

motherboard fried as well – only 2 years after having spent what turned out to be entirely too much money for such piece of crap machine – Boo to you, Dell!
Louise Biela

Wow! I found all these comments when pricing new motherboards – sad for all of us but glad it isn’t something I did to make just about everything listed happen on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Thanks everyone for the tips – it will surely save me some time.
Zhen

A friend of mine has this laptop. He had it for a little over two years and it just wouldn’t start up. When the power button was pressed, the screen is black and the only light the lights up is the power light. At first, i thought it was the memory. I tested the memory with my laptop and they were fine. I tested the HDD and it was fine. I took the whole laptop apart and sniff every part and pieces to see if the system was fried or not. It was fine. Finally, I took the coin battery out from the laptop’s motherboard and put it into my desktop’s motherboard. I started my desktop and the motherboard warns that the coin battery is not working properly. I put in a new coin battery to my friend’s laptop and reassembled the whole thing. Turned the laptop on and everything is working again. It seems like this is a design flaw. On a desktop, the motherboard would tell you that the coin battery is bad and you would need to replace it. However, on this Dell Inspiron 1526, the system would refuse to boot, showing a black screen. I believe this applies to everyone that’s having this problem. Here is a link to disassemble the laptop and replace the coin battery. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1526/en/SM/coinbatt.htm#wp1179839 It requires taking the whole laptop apart but it fixes the problem and saves yourself from buying a new laptop.
Cheryl

I am about to replace my coin battery. I’ve read all the posts on this topic. It is really necessary to take the entire laptop apart? Is the coin battery beneath the keyboard? Would be grateful if someone could tell me what steps detailed in the repair manual can be bypassed. Thanks.
Donnie

I also had to replace the coin cell battery after about 14 months. Agreed, this is a cheap albeit time-consuming fix, but there has to be more to this issue. I have friends who have had laptops for 3-5 years without replacing the BIOS battery, I have a desktop I have used for 7 years without any BIOS battery issues. What is causing this?
BTW…now the laptop is completely dead,,no LEDs, no nothing, Replaced the power/USB circuit board…did not help. Looks like a dead motherboard now. Dell sucks!
sam

Same as everyone else…1526 DELL 1.5 years, motherboard dead. Intermittent turn ons and then after about another week…no turn on at all.

As many have said here…DELL is DEAD to ME. I WILL NEVER buy another product made by this company.

Shame on YOU Dell once for selling and not standing by your prouduct. ..But, I thought, just maybe this new 1526 design had changed and things would be better….Guess what..NOPE. And, Shame on me if I ever even think about purchasing another DELL product again. Good Riddens.
Shane

Dell Inspiron 1526 motherboard died – the video card built into the motherboard is dead. About two years old. The video card cannot be replaced – it is in the motherboard. Over $300 for new motherboard. This crap.
Shae

Same issues – 14 months after purchased new the motherboard died. After throwing a fit with Dell they gave me a slight discount, $200 vs $300 to replace. Seven months later the hard drive crashed and now four month later, about 13 months since I had the motherboard replaced my computer is having the same problems as before. Now that I’ve read this I’ll try the cell battery and hope that works. Through my work I get a 20-30% discount on Dells, but after this I’d rather pay full price and go with another brand.
Kim

I have had the same problem as many for the last few months….lights and fan come on but a black screen. I thought I had a virus so I removed the hard drive and ran a virus check but it didn’t help. Read some online posts from another website and pretty much gave up that it was the motherboard.

Starting pricing motherboards when I ran across this site. I read the threads from Sam and Jeremy about replacing the CMOS battery and thought I would give it a try since the laptop was doing me no good sitting here anyway. I followed the service manual as instructed (on the Dell website) and spent an afternoon on a snow day dismantaling my laptop (it was painstaking and tedious). I am happy and ecstatic to say that my laptop is back to life while costing me less than 4 bucks!

Thanks Sam & Jeremy for the great advice! :)
Keith

Wow. I’m not alone with the motherboard issue. Mine just went ‘kaput’ yesterday….am incredibly unsatisfied with Dell, but more so with Best Buy. Their customer service is absolutely some of the worst in the industry. Bye bye, Dell…and Bye bye, Best Buy. I won’t make the same mistake twice.
Mark Stobie

My Dell 1526 Died as well black screen at start up. lights only. do not waist time taking it to the geeks they will want you to pay for a new mother board. Try replacing the Cmos battery first. Mine worked fine after that. apparently dell went cheap on on the Cmos battery.
Carmine Fazzari

What a piece of crap. Just like a bunch of other people – 14 months into it’s life and the Motherboard dies. I also bought a Dell 1751 in August 2010 – three months and the hard drive needed to be replaced. I’m done with Dell. My next laptop will be an overpriced HP. At least they don’t build them next to some contaminated river.
Patrick Daradikc

I AGREE THIS LAPTOP IS A JOKE….same deal..new hard drive..new battery now motherboard gone.DELL you’ll never get my business again..After 4 pc’s your GONZO..buying a Toshiba Laptop tomorrow…chepaer price and way more for the money…you should be ashamed of your products…Don’t buy a DELL.

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