I'm thinking of vostro or that new Inspiron 11 3000 but I have not heard much feedback from that unit.

To me, battery life is king, as I travel a lot.

4. McAffee is driving me crazy..slowing everything down by half.

How large is the adapter for the 5470? I really like the size of the adapter of the Asus zenbooks due to its smaller size. pics would be nice.

How you manage to get your hands with Inspiron 11 3000. From the youtube videos I've seen, the 11 looks 'solid' although its really is made out of plastic to look like aluminium.

What bothers me a bit about the 11 is the celeron processor. Kind of worried about the performance when it comes to booting from a cold start, browsing web and play facebook level games.

Although..touch screen is nice, but I wonder if it brings any benefit when using Win 8.1.

Very hard to find shop around Miri that carries dell laptops.

I've been looking for netbook level laptop unfortunately Dell as well as other manufacturer simply stop producing it as they deemed netbook a dead category.

Inspiron 11 3000 would very much fit my needs, unfortunately the price comes so close to more powerful vostro.

Venue Pro 11? How many USB ports (not including mini) does it have? I require at the very least, 2 full size USB ports.

But lighter, right? Same adapter size as well? Do you feel the Inspiron 11 touch screen is 'worth' it?

I checked the unit, although I would prefer to get the latest one (E145) but the unit runs on AMD processor. 

Still prefer dell due to its excellent on site service.

just call them & they'll come to your doorstep?
or need to send to their service center?

Wanted to ask sifu here, why the RJ45 port in 5470 so small? Will it fit the normal cable or need to remove the cover?

Its 8 beeps exactly. Does that mean its an LCD failure? Seriously? On a brand new laptop just opened about half an hour ago?

Yeah they offered me a refund, unit replacement or lcd replacement. I had no other option than the lcd replacement since I will be out of Malaysia after three weeks and unit replacement would take 20days++.

This is really frustrating. The whole new laptop feeling has been ruined. Probably got a really bad unit.

anyone who has bought the 5470, is it a touchscreen?do they have ones without touchscreen and with windows 7 instead of 8?

Piece of cake but honestly it would still sucks because your brand new laptop had to straight away get repair, and the technician gets to take its 'virginity' before the actual owner.

I hope my Dell won't be DOA. 

I'm not having a pleasant feeling about this.. Should I get a refund? What do you guys suggest?

My order suddenly went 2 days earlier.

After tested my Vostro 5470 for almost a week, I can conclude that the wifi is sucks.

I had my iPhone, iPad & another Lenovo laptop together next with the vostro 5470, all device was connected to my wifi where the Vostro unable to detect the wifi. The distance between my Unifi router & all the devices is less than 10m (distance by a wall).

I don't think is the router problem because all other devices was connected except my 5470.

Might need to call Dell & get them to resolve this issue for me...

1 Year Limited Hardware warranty       : MYR 425.00
2 Year Limited Hardware warranty       : MYR 656.00
3 Year Limited Hardware warranty       : MYR 742.50

-        Cover on natural Hardware failure
-      Engineer onsite service on Next Business Day (provided if parts are available in local warehouse)
-        Exclude battery, wear & tear and cosmetic issue

Price Validity: until 12th November 2013

Please take note on below:

Warranty extension covers:
-next business day onsite response after remote diagnosis (hardware issues)
-parts only warranty ( motherboard, ram, graphic card, dvd rom, palmrest, hard drive )
-hardware and software phone support

Warranty extension does not cover
-battery (came with 1 year warranty only)
-accidental damage
- wear and tear issue
-cosmetic damage
- damage caused by natural disaster
- Data backup
- Engineer onsite for software issues.
- LCD crack no covered
·    Battery only can be change at the 1st year of purchase date

I message Dell Facebook, and they direct me to the another Dell personnel request quotation from her manager...because Dell Online dont have option to purchase warranty extension for vostro.

Huh..my Dell unit arrived earlier than expected.

Nice, I'm now more incline towards dell inspiron 14 7000 series.
Yeah and will cost a lot more but look sturdy.

Any of you guys mate a 5470 with ssd yet?

i bought 5470 (rm2149) laptop.. then bought myself Crucial m500 ssd, but the ssd wont work. I called up dell, they say 5470 got 2 kind.. 1 is 5470 notebook, and 1 is 5470 ultrabook.. somehow the rm2149 is notebook, thus does not support SSD. its kinda stupid excuse, but heck. anyone manage to get it anything work?

or should i just get mSata?

'dell' technician said, the one in ultrabook series. probably gonna have stickers..
IMO, dell is just giving lame excuse.. my 7 years old pc can use SSD with no problem lol, why newer dell cant support. At first, they even try to convince me how SSD port is different than sata. lol

The bios will hang, thus no further testing.
Bios simply wont get past through if m500 SSD is plugged in.