Dell Inspiron 1545 Review: Nine Years Later

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Dell Inspiron 1545 Review: Nine Years Later

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Dantastic

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@TML_Gameplay 6 жыл бұрын

I still use it, and will probably still use it till 2020

@johncate9541 5 жыл бұрын

Put an SSD in there and replace the CPU with a T9900 and you certainly can.

@ryzenplayergamer8196 4 жыл бұрын

@@johncate9541 will the T9900 even work on the 1545?

@johncate9541 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. I've run both the T9900 and the E8435 on an Inspiron 1545. It doesn't run hot because it's better silicon than the Pentium Dual-Core chips that Dell used in many of these. My battery life improved by 30 minutes when I switched from a T4400 to a T9900.

@azimus6177 4 жыл бұрын

its the middle of 2020 and I am still using it

@0scartheCat 4 жыл бұрын

@@azimus6177 . . me to but motherboard just went . . so may move on now

@LifeonWheelsPakistan 5 жыл бұрын

Damn bro! I am still using it from last 11 years and since 2019 Jan, I have windows 10 on it lolx

@rhondalau8739 5 жыл бұрын

I still use mine ,in fact using right now !! My first laptop.

@leegsy 5 жыл бұрын

I had a 1525 but upgraded to the 1545 ages ago. It's still excellent if you're not bothered about playing games on it, although I do play games on mine but nothing too modern. I love the feel of the keyboard on Inspiron laptops.

@MrSupersonic2012 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Bboyman1150 7 жыл бұрын

This was my first PC!

@dooffff 7 жыл бұрын

Bboyman1150 same

@bengardner5787 5 жыл бұрын

Bboyman1150 same I made it a chrome book and it works really well

@officialm0016 3 жыл бұрын

same👍

@CoasterMan13Official 2 жыл бұрын

My mom's first was a 1545. It was purple.

@MohdArsh-pv2rj 3 жыл бұрын

Bro I'm still using it since last 13 yrs and it's really badass

@matthewbatchelder3627 3 жыл бұрын

I still have this exact same looking laptop to this day. It used to run Windows Vista but now I got it to run Windows 10 Enterprise on it. It used to be my daily driver until I have a more powerful PC. However, I am not throwing it away since it still works. And sometimes it will come in use again.

@CoasterMan13Official 2 жыл бұрын

If it ain't broke, don't throw it out or try to even fix it.

@zetametallic 4 жыл бұрын

I've had mine since 2011. Bought it refurbished from Tesco direct in the UK. It has moved house many times with me up and down the country, has been knocked, bashed about and has had a few new keyboards and numerous power supplies. I'm thinking of getting an additional Dell laptop it as I can't deal with the painfully slow speeds, however, it will still be used for the CD/DVD drive. Mine is totally original with the integrated webcam, no updates.

@lennytlm Жыл бұрын

Buy an SSD for it and maybe some new ram

@knglerxst 6 жыл бұрын

Good laptop. I used mine for 9 years too before I got a new one. It still works.

@rickyjones4974 4 жыл бұрын

I'm still running one of these in December 2019. It has the original 3 GB of RAM, ancient Celeron processor, and a dodgy but usable replacement battery. I run Linux Ubuntu, and it does pretty well. I don't get very good internet speeds out in the country, so this one can browse the internet slowly, just as good as any newer computer. I did find a deal on a HP Elitebook 820, that should have some better specs. I haven't tried that one out, but nearly anything should be better than the 1545 after this many years. The 1545 just refuses to die. I bought it back in college when I was very broke. It was on a Father's Day blowout sale for $249. I think I got my money's worth out of it.

@CoasterMan13Official 2 жыл бұрын

My mom got hers for $700 back in 2009 for college.

@wuzhAa 5 жыл бұрын

That was my First PC !! bro gives me nostalgia to remember it

@mr.k3966 3 жыл бұрын

Same here bro, 😅

@supercomputing942 5 жыл бұрын

Now this was the review I was looking for, great video!! :D

@Dantastic 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Just seeing this comment now.

@johncate9541 5 жыл бұрын

I'm watching your video on one that shipped from Dell in February of 2010. Of course, I've upgraded pretty much every component of it. It's now running a Core 2 Duo E8435 3.06 GHz, 6GB of DDR2-800, a 240GB SSD, 900p screen, a new 5G-capable wifi card, and I swapped in the silver keyboard from the 1525, which is compatible. This one shipped with Vista, but dual-boots Mint 19 and Win 7 now. Still works great and I expect it will be my everyday laptop for quite a while yet. Mint 19 Cinnamon works wonderfully on a 1545.

@arjunj73 4 жыл бұрын

That's so cool. I have one that my dad bought for me back in the day. I remember it was on sale at Best Buy for father's day. Mine has 4GB of RAM and the intel core 2 duo processor. It still works, but is pretty slow with Windows 7. At least, it's much slower than my new laptop which is a Dell Latitude E5550 with 8GB of Ram and a newer Intel Core i5 processor (I believe the 2nd generation of Core i5). Maybe I will start using mine again, any ideas on how I can make it run faster?

@arjunj73 4 жыл бұрын

The other thing I love about my newer laptop, is it has a matte black finish which means it never catches fingerprints, and the display is also matte compared to the inspiron's display which is really shiny.

@johncate9541 4 жыл бұрын

@@arjunj73 The best upgrade for a 1545, if you haven't done it already, is to replace the slow spinning HDD with a SATA SSD. I gained more performance from this than anything else. Just an inexpensive ADATA 240GB drive did the trick. Maxing out the CPU (quads don't work on a 1545, but any 35W C2D will) improves performance, but the best upgrade is the SSD. I only pimped the heck out of mine just because I could.

@tahiramir8445 4 жыл бұрын

@@johncate9541 IIS IT 32 BIT OR 64 BIT? ORIGINAL ONE?

@johncate9541 4 жыл бұрын

@@tahiramir8445 The T9900 is a 64-bit CPU and I have always installed a 64-bit OS on it. In my opinion, no one should use a 32-bit OS anymore unless they have an older 32-bit CPU.

@dedotadedwam466 4 жыл бұрын

Damn this was my first laptop. I also got a crappy chinese extended battery from amazon and you're right, it didn't do anything to the battery life and actually failed about a month later. This cheap flimsy laptop is surprisingly durable. I've dropped it numerous times, spill drinks on it, and one time I got something stuck on the fan underneath and had the CPU running over 100 degrees Celsius for a month before I realized what was going on, and it still worked just fine. I bought a new laptop once the hard drive started failing. I could have just replaced it but this was back before I knew much about computers. This video got me in the mood to dig this old workhorse out and put an ssd in it!

@CoasterMan13Official 2 жыл бұрын

Cool. My Mom got this as her first computer. Hers was purple.

@mr.k3966 3 жыл бұрын

yes, Same laptop I have, And i am using it since 2009, now i am using it with windows 7, working smooth 😀

@CoasterMan13Official 3 жыл бұрын

I have a Latitude d630. Edit: this model was my mom's first computer ever. She had the purple one. She bought it so she could do her college work at home. Then. I dropped the computer from a high spot (my dad's gun case,) and it was externally damaged. The charging port on it was screwed up though. Then, she ended up having to borrow a laptop from the neighbors (the one that ended up being mine) and the rest is history!

@ChaliceInChains 4 жыл бұрын

Cool review. In 2019 I just took my Dell studio 1555 and put an SSD, new battery, new WiFi card and Linux on it (has 4gb ram already) and it's pretty great. Might upgrade the processor to the t9900 and ram to 8gb but the ram is actually expensive. Still, might be fun to try it

@pavelk.2176 6 жыл бұрын

I still usr mine from 9 years ago!

@MrSupersonic2012 4 жыл бұрын

Watching this on the same computer. I've had it since they came out. Showing it's age, but still reliable enough. I do want to upgrade to something more modern and powerful so I can actually play some games on it. Even if this isn't as flashy as laptops of today, it was still a great computer.

@ryzenplayergamer8196 4 жыл бұрын

i have the same laptop to i use it as my maine booted with linux mint 19.2

@MrSupersonic2012 4 жыл бұрын

@@ryzenplayergamer8196 I'm thinking of downloading Linux on mine. I've used Windows 98 up to windows 7.

@ryzenplayergamer8196 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSupersonic2012 is it normal though for the screen to feel a little flimsy?

@MrSupersonic2012 4 жыл бұрын

@@ryzenplayergamer8196 Yeah, it is. Be gentle.

@Chanceman-nj7qw 4 жыл бұрын

That was my first computer! i remember i got it from my grandma and i still use it but sadly my grandma died :(

@garypowell4565 2 жыл бұрын

Oscar Goldman: We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.

@iansheppard9736 4 жыл бұрын

My wife uses one of these but years ago loaded Ubuntu on it instead of Windows. Now on Ubuntu 20.4. Runs great and totally reliable. HD had problems so fitted SSD I had spare. Good kit.

@dooffff 7 жыл бұрын

I loved this computer. It was an AMD model and ran strong until 2016.

@hermanmunster3358 6 жыл бұрын

I still use one, daily. I am watching this video on it. Mine is running windows 10, with 4gb of DDR2 ram, 2ghz Intel Celeron cpu, and a 250gb HDD, and it runs fine. I am still on the original battery, although battery only lasts about a half hour. I have replaced the original HDD which had become corrupted, and the keyboard has been replaced about three times, and one USB port, which got damaged. Oh, and the touchpad no longer works, but that is a Windows 10 issue, as they stopped supplying the driver for this particular touchpad. And I have tried installing a new driver from Synaptics, but no luck. I do use a mouse anyway, so it is no big deal. That aside, it has been the best laptop I have ever owned. I had 2 Acers prior to buying this about 10 years ago, and Acers of that time were just junk. I recently bought an HP budget laptop, with an AMD A9 cpu SOLDERED to the motherboard, and I have just stripped it for parts after just 4 months. Never will I buy HP again. I also just bought a Dell XPS 15 L502X, which has boot problems, so that is packed up to return to the seller, But my Inspiron 1545 has never let me down, ever. It is almost like an old friend, and it will be a sad day when I eventually replace it. Good to see there is another one still working away hard, way past its expected shelf life.

@loganlong2993 5 жыл бұрын

great review mate i was given one frome a friend and it came with 2gb of ram and put 4 in it the hard drive was gone so i replaced it its a strong little laptop

@jyotishkhumallambam3688 3 жыл бұрын

I am still using from 2009

@JuanSanchez-ik7wx 5 жыл бұрын

good video for the greater good.

@FireBlades 5 жыл бұрын

My math teacher wanted me to like get rid of any information so he could give it to someone who would really need it so I fixed it up and installed windows 10 on it and it surprisingly works very well. Emulates up to n64 (not sega saturn) and ps1 and maybe the dreamcast. Would definetly want this as my daily driver over my desktop which is somehow slower than this (but that has a pentium processer and the one i have has a core 2 duo

@Dantastic 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Core 2 Duo models are still very much usable. I might swap the processor in it one day.

@justinplayzgame9962 6 жыл бұрын

i still use a inspiron 1545

@drewcollins3816 5 жыл бұрын

me to

@leegsy 5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@arjunj73 4 жыл бұрын

I stopped using mine about 3 years ago, it's pretty slow with Windows 10 professional on mine.

@jaykay18 7 жыл бұрын

That machine is probably twice as fast and powerful as the machine I use. Still has at least 150,000 more miles in it. The video camera software causing your CD drive to disappear probably has to do with bad UPPERFILTERS/LOWERFILTERS keys in the registry. Common problem, very easy to edit the registry to correct the issue. System Restore rolled the registry back before the change, which is why that worked, but also got rid of the video camera software. No wonder the software was shady. I can't even tell you how many machines I've fixed with the UPPERFILTERS/LOWERFILTERS issue. Touchpads on laptops today are a completely and total joke. It's almost as if they made them useless to force you to buy a touchscreen laptop. Any touchpad that does not have separate buttons for left and right is not a true touchpad. It's junk. That's why an external mouse is well well worth it. Microphones in the screen where the webcams were offered better sound. A lot of times later on they integrated the microphone into the webcam board. The bad news is on older machines they ran a separate microphone cable up inside of the screen, along with the wireless antenna wires and sometimes the LVDS cable, it just gets too crowded. The best way to enhance the performance of what you have now, at no cost, is to reinstall the OS. If you want to dual boot that's fine, but reinstalling the existing OS will make it faster, and give the machine a much better offering of a user experience. The best way to enhance the performance of what you have is to install an SSD in place of the hard drive. For the small amount of money these drives cost today it's probably worth it. The 500GB drive can be turned into an external using an enclosure which could likely be picked up on Amazon or ebay for under 10 bucks. Personally, I wouldn't bother with Tiny 7, it sounds like TOO much has been stripped. XP hasn't been supported in some time. Not that I care if MS has any updates for it, but other programs you probably use such as Google Chrome no longer really support XP. It's the dropping support from other applications that's leading to its demise.

@Dantastic 7 жыл бұрын

jaykay18 Yes indeed, this machine has quite a bit of life in it, which is why it's staying at my desk to be used for word processing and light tasks. As it turns out, I think I omitted much of my reasoning behind upgrading (due mostly to the video being reshot). I could easily have used this as my daily driver for at least five more years, but like many people, I am underwhelmed by the direction the computer industry is going. Basically I wanted to get a new machine while they still have built-in optical drives, actual USB A ports, touch pads with actual buttons (like you had mentioned). Also, I've been wanting USB 3 ports, a backlit keyboard, an actual graphics card, etc. One of the requirements was also having a hard drive and not an SSD. They're too pricy as compared to hard drives and I don't like the fact that they're pretty much guaranteed to fail after a finite number of cycles that can actually be counted. I know hard drives are guaranteed to fail eventually as well, but they generally last longer.

@jaykay18 7 жыл бұрын

I've been extremely underwhelmed as well. They've stripped out all the ports, gotten rid of Ethernet on a number of models, relying on wireless only, and figure nobody uses optical media anymore. The majority of laptops I've seen are these "ultrabooks", and there's absolutely nothing ultra about them except the price. They're as thin as a sheet of cardboard, and can't cool themselves to save their own life. Worst is they build them upside-down, so replacing a keyboard requires complete disassembly of the machine, rather than just the removal of the old keyboard and dropping a new one in. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do when forced to buy a new computer. Chances are I'm going to be using old boxes for the rest of my life. I'm a firm believer in old hardware. I think the phrase "they don't make 'em like they used to" comes completely into play here.

@Dantastic 7 жыл бұрын

jaykay18 It's so true. I suppose you could always look into building your own box. Luckily, there are a lot of power users that generate demand for all of that sort of hardware that OEMs don't wish to include any longer. It seems like PC building is making a comeback. As far as notebooks are concerned though, there's not much hope left there. As much as I hate to admit it, there will come a time when the well-equipped pcs of yesterday will become too obsolete to do nearly anything. I used to be able to have almost 30 tabs open on my browser. Now just opening my yahoo inbox can make the browser freeze briefly due too the webpage being bloated beyond belief.

@jaykay18 7 жыл бұрын

30 tabs, never! Not even on a fast machine would I think about taxing it like that! An old ex-co-worker of mine many years ago used to leave windows open (this was before tabbed browsing) all the time, and I'd yell at him every day. It's the same idea, applied differently: "Oh, quick, close the door, don't let the heat out", then they leave a hundred different tabs open. Building a box is a possibility, but the motherboards generally don't carry a nice plethora of ports anymore. It really has become the genericized "beige box". Laptops are going to get worse and worse.

@kaiwashere9 2 жыл бұрын

I use the same laptop it has 3gb ddr3 ram Intel celeron inside

@suicideposter 5 жыл бұрын

I have one of these, Installing Windows 10 completely bricked it years ago though.

@arjunj73 4 жыл бұрын

LOL, that happened to mine too and I got so mad! But luckily I formatted it and installed windows 7. Don't use it anymore though because I got a Dell Latitude E5550 which is so much better now.

@gminiver 2 жыл бұрын

I have dell 1545 laptop too.

@prosenjitsingha7901 5 жыл бұрын

please provide the download link for driver windows 8.1 64bit of dell inspiron 1545...

@knifelover1848 4 жыл бұрын

im still using this laptop altough its hard to keep clean it has never let me down im going to eventult upgrade it to a t990 and 8gb of ram of ddr2 ive heard you can do that to these machines any way does your dispaly feel wobbly and how do you keep your keyboard so clean lol

@durarara9233 6 жыл бұрын

nice vid :P

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

@bearcatwilliamscully5450 6 жыл бұрын

do you know i got the same exact laptop and i dissamble and i reasamble the laptop and it works and now to dissamble again for the fan inatall

@ryzenplayergamer8196 6 жыл бұрын

I have that same laptop with windows xp service pack 2 and its suppose to have windows vista home basic but can't find a iso download but I love that laptop

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the driver installation CD that came with mine also had drivers for Windows XP. It's funny though because I tried to install XP on it a few times, and it always failed. Obviously Home edition wouldn't work with the dual-core processor, but Professional wouldn't load either. Anyway, glad you like it too. It's never let me down.

@ryzenplayergamer8196 6 жыл бұрын

To put windows xp on that model you need to go in you BIOS setting and switch your hard drive controller to ATA. Also what the max ram for that laptop mine has 3 put I wanted to upgrad also I want to upgraded my HDD to a ssd

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Jordan Gallion Ahh, okay. I figured it was something like that. I forget what the maximum supported RAM is, but I have mine at 4GB, which is a max considering I have a 32 bit OS on it now. I've heard of people getting it up to 6GB, but you get into the chore of finding two 3GB sticks at a reasonable price.

@ryzenplayergamer8196 6 жыл бұрын

I was looking toward to put Linux min on mine but didn't know if all the drivers would be supported such as the wireless drivers

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Jordan Gallion Well as I found out, Ubuntu distros work just fine with this machine. Dell is very into supporting Linux. Never had a driver issue using Linux on here.

@drewcollins3816 5 жыл бұрын

I got the same laptop with Windows 7 did you sell this laptop or do you still use it to this day and does it got a ssd

@Dantastic 5 жыл бұрын

I still have it and I had been using it to take to class. It does not have an SSD.

@user-ou6cg4bt2z 6 жыл бұрын

Can this laptop play madden 08?

@satyasona02 5 жыл бұрын

Windows 10 support

@johncate9541 5 жыл бұрын

Win10 works fine on an Inspiron 1545.

@bryanlucero7505 7 жыл бұрын

Hey I wondering if this can run gta v?? Please respond

@Dantastic 7 жыл бұрын

I've never tried, but if it can, I can almost guarantee that it would lag quite a bit. It does have an express graphics slot, so I'd say that if you're going to game on it, acquiring a card for added graphics performance is a must.

@bryanlucero7505 7 жыл бұрын

Rebelkid1112 oh ok i boght one and it has an ad thankyiu

@aibelbinzacariah2738 6 жыл бұрын

Hey bro i am watching this video in an inspiron 1545. Gta san andreas lag very badly I cant even dream about gta 5.

@DjFUSIONMIXMASTER 6 жыл бұрын

Bryan Lucero I ran GTA iv on mine It lags like shit on low settings so for GTA v you will need and mod for low end PC's.

@DjFUSIONMIXMASTER 6 жыл бұрын

Piano Performance GTA as runs smooth on mine at high setting but I find that when the laptop is how which it will get bcuz these over heat a lot it lags a little.....

@tusharmehrotra5158 6 жыл бұрын

Can I play FIFA 18 on this?

@DjFUSIONMIXMASTER 6 жыл бұрын

Tushar Mehrotra most likely no

@clm3888 6 жыл бұрын

Overheating issues?

@DjFUSIONMIXMASTER 6 жыл бұрын

Clarence M yes!!!!!

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Just seeing this now. Yeah, the Pentium line of processors were always known for all of the heat they generated. Back in 2009, it wasn't too much of an issue, but the amount of processing power that is required just to browse the web now takes it toll. After three minutes of watching KZfaq, my fan begins running full blast. That's one of the reasons that it got retired to a secondary machine.

@alecadanglao8386 6 жыл бұрын

I remember myself when we had to bring this to a computer repair shop they told us it was over heating so we had to go buy a fan which cooled the laptop form the bottom

@Dantastic 6 жыл бұрын

Alec Adanglao Yeah, if you look closely in the video, you can see it's actually sitting on one of those cooling pads. These days, it doesn't take much to heat up Pentium processors.

@isaacgeorge8253 4 жыл бұрын

0.0 mm keytravel Bet macbook can't beat that!

@bobgrimes8618 6 жыл бұрын

Just upgrade the ram, faster processor and add an SSD!

@hermanmunster3358 6 жыл бұрын

4GB of ram is the maximum for a 32bit pc apparently. You could buy ram with a faster clocking speed, but you cant use DDR3 or DDR4 ram, as the locating notch along the bottom of the strips are in different places. And newer ram runs at different voltages.

@leegsy 5 жыл бұрын

@@hermanmunster3358 1545 laptops can support 8GB of RAM if you use two 4GB sticks, but obviously you'd need a 64-bit OS as a 32-bit would only recognise 3GB maximum: www.quora.com/I-own-a-Dell-Inspiron-1545-laptop-with-4-GB-of-RAM-Is-there-room-to-upgrade-to-8-12-GB-of-RAM Also, putting a new CPU in would be expensive. You could probably buy a faster laptop for cheaper if you shopped smart.