WAS: 16V Oiling (not), NOW: Dell computers...

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Hell, I may as well have a Mexican computer (though mine claims to be a
'murrican). I already drive a Mexican (German?) car.
Cathy '99 Puebla bug


> Dude, your getting a Dell! La-mexicano!
>
> C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:Well, my friend Dell and
> I have been inseperable since we met a month ago,
> but I haven't had a laptop before, and I didn't choose it, it was a
> surprise from my hubby. So right now I'm a very happy Dell owner. It's a
> used Latitude, so likely isn't supported by Dell anyway.
> But we have a leased fleet of Dells at the high school I work at, and
> they've been fine. Not sure how old they are, but the kids haven't managed
> to kill them. I can't recall having one NOT work, the network is another
> story. I'm far from an expert, so that's my fraction of two cents.
> As far as service goes, I think it's always a bit of a crap shoot. Service
> when my old AST was new was great, but good luck once it gets older. And
> the same if you get the kid down the street to build one, service is great
> unless he moves eh?
>
> Cathy, from the Dell, still cursed with slow dialup.
>
>
>> Let me give you some background so you know where I'm coming from.
>>
>> A lister, Eric S. had to send his laptop in for repair and never saw it
>> again. Much later, he did get a new one, but not without a lot of
>> difficulty.
>>
>> A woman I work with had a harddrive die on her, so she sent it in and
>> they
>> replaced it after TONS of runarounds on the phone and then over a month
>> of
>> waiting. Shortly after, the harddrive dies again (she uses her laptop
>> pretty much as a desktop, so it doesn't get dropped/abused). This time,
>> she sends it back to Dell, after having it for 3 weeks they say it's a
>> software issue and everything seems fine. She took it to a tech here in
>> town, yep it's the harddrive. She ended up buying a new harddrive
>> instead
>> of going through the hassle again. She did try though, for 4hrs.
>> Basically
>> it went, explain problem, get transferred, hold, repeat.
>>
>> There's 3 or 4 more instances I can think of off the top of my head, but
>> you get the idea. They used to be THE company for computers, great
>> prices,
>> supreme quality and better customer service than most any company.
>>
>> Sony Viaos were the best for laptop computers for awhile and still are
>> awesome computers, but I haven't really been around them lately. IBM
>> Thinkpads are very expensive comparably, but they truely are the
>> businessman's computer. Not flashy, light, amazingly durable and they do
>> what you need them too, without the 17" screen and useless gizmos.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Dan
>>
>> David Utley wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hmmm, I should not be shocked by this, but I am. Are they really that
>> bad?
>> I was considering getting one... And don't somebody tell me that I could
>> put one together, blah, blah, blah.... I will buy an apple before I do
>> that... Don't get me started on the richest man in N.A....
>>
>> Anyone else confirm Dells' state of being?
>>
>> Thanks Dan,
>> David