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bruset
08-01-06, 10:30 PM
Enjoy my saga.

http://www.pboutdoor.com/category/tech/dell/
TeeGate
08-01-06, 10:39 PM
I'm not going to say anything....except...well...you know.

Sorry to hear about your problems. I would be pissed!

Guy
Frolickin
08-02-06, 12:43 AM
Last summer, Jeff Jarvis's Dell Hell posts (http://www.buzzmachine.com/?tag=dell) on his blog were the best reading in the blogosphere. They were so influencial that Dell now blogs (http://www.dellone2one.com/).

I would take your complaint there.
BEHR655
08-02-06, 08:11 AM
Enjoy my saga.

http://www.pboutdoor.com/category/tech/dell/

Well Ben, you've been happy with your Dells in the past. It looks like you got a lemon this time. You should insist on replacement.

Steve
bruset
08-02-06, 10:27 AM
Last summer, Jeff Jarvis's Dell Hell posts (http://www.buzzmachine.com/?tag=dell) on his blog were the best reading in the blogosphere. They were so influencial that Dell now blogs (http://www.dellone2one.com/).

I would take your complaint there.

I have. I have actually written some (IMHO) well thought out comments to their articles but they never get posted.

I am going to ask them for a new laptop.
this_is_nascar
08-02-06, 11:06 AM
I've had this Dell Latitude D610 for sometime now and love it. I've never had a problem.
gagliarchives
08-02-06, 01:50 PM
I've had my Dell for 3 years. No problems yet. And if I did, it was user error. My Dell at work has been great for 4 years. But...i need an upgrade.
bruset
08-02-06, 02:25 PM
I was always a hard core Dell fan. I've spent close to $500k with them over the last few years (corporate purchases).

Anyway, I spoke with someone today and they're giving me a new laptop with much better specs than the one that I have now.

We'll see if/when it actually happens. The service call # they gave me isn't working yet.
gagliarchives
08-02-06, 02:36 PM
Well that's good. Hopefully they will make good. I switched to Dell because Gateway was clueless when my system went. But that was like 1999. burp
bruset
08-02-06, 04:13 PM
We're an IBM/Dell shop here. I really like IBM's servers, and their laptops aren't bad either.
gagliarchives
08-02-06, 05:06 PM
my buddy in IT worships his IBM stuff.
daved
08-03-06, 01:28 AM
i just bought a new laptop. its an acer with 512 mb 60 gig hard drive 15 inch screen. it was 650 with a 150 mail in rebate from circuit city. i got it cause it was a good deal. had it for like a month now and havent had any problems with it. i also got the t-mobile air card for it and can go anywhere with the lap top and get the web. only thing is the battery does not last that long. the service has its good times and sometimes it takes a long time for the pages to download but overall the service is ok it is the cheapest at 50 dollars a month. it says it can be upgraded from 512 to 1 gig but i dont know how to do that. this is my first computer.