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

[pb3vr6 at yahoo.com (Tonee Northam)]

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
>


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