Screw you, Dell
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I have only had one fault which was one that would no longer charge a laptop due to a fault on the adapter sensing card. My main gripe was performance/features for price. I remember pricing up a Dell of comparable performance to the Acer I am currently using, and the Dell was twice the price (and didn't have all the features of the Acer).
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True, one ends up spending a premium price for the Dell. I like to think I'm paying for reliability, but as you've mentioned, I'm sure you can get that today without paying a premium. A couple of things I've liked about my Dell laptops are the 1920 x 1200 panels and the 7200 rpm drives. /ravi
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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If you buy Dell then get the Latitude or Precision series, same with the Lenovo get the Thinkpad series. Now I dont think you will buy another Dell so try Thinkpad this time. :)
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If you buy Dell then get the Latitude or Precision series, same with the Lenovo get the Thinkpad series. Now I dont think you will buy another Dell so try Thinkpad this time. :)
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I went with a Sony Vaio Ultrabook.
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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Electronics can go awry. This need not be particularly specific to dell. I had a hp notebook which gave up on me the same way your dell did. I've generally had better experience with dell than other brands in comparison.
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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Electronics can go awry. This need not be particularly specific to dell. I had a hp notebook which gave up on me the same way your dell did. I've generally had better experience with dell than other brands in comparison.
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The Dell Inspiron series is very infamous for overheating, crashing, and having components go boom on you. (Too lazy to get a link right now. Currently [still] waiting for Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 to install, after about 10 hours of it running. :doh: )
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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Dell is the Radio Shack of computers, cheap and prone to failure.
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Dell is the Radio Shack of computers, cheap and prone to failure.
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I never have had any issues with things from Radio Shack, and Dell is often overpriced. My new computer cost about half of what a Dell computer with most of the features would cost (The dell had 4GB RAM and a not so good screen, my new computer has 8GB RAM and a touchscreen with full 1080p HD functionality.)
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I never have had any issues with things from Radio Shack, and Dell is often overpriced. My new computer cost about half of what a Dell computer with most of the features would cost (The dell had 4GB RAM and a not so good screen, my new computer has 8GB RAM and a touchscreen with full 1080p HD functionality.)
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It depends on what you buy there but they sell low grade electronic equipment at top price, don't know about computer never bought one there.
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That sucks big time. Odd, but I've never had any problems with any of the Dells (laptops and desktops) I've owned in the past 12+ years. I know that doesn't help, but just saying. /ravi
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Wow. The last place I worked had about 115 machines, all Dell. I had to replace the motherboards in 40 of them because of the "capacitor plague", some, more than once. The count would be even higher had I not left. I'm sure the guy who followed me ended up replacing even more of them. The bad caps weren't really Dells fault. The big problem I had with them was how they handled the situation. They denied the problem even existed for months. I'll never buy a Dell for my personal use.
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Wow. The last place I worked had about 115 machines, all Dell. I had to replace the motherboards in 40 of them because of the "capacitor plague", some, more than once. The count would be even higher had I not left. I'm sure the guy who followed me ended up replacing even more of them. The bad caps weren't really Dells fault. The big problem I had with them was how they handled the situation. They denied the problem even existed for months. I'll never buy a Dell for my personal use.
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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Don't know how old your Dell is, but I have an 2 year old Inspiron in which the motherboard recently died. I was really pissed off and I only had the standard 1 year Dell warranty, so it was 1 year out of warranty. I called Dell expecting to get nowhere with the call centre operator, and was ready to get all shouty and aggressive. However, the Dell employee on the phone fell over himself to help me and offered several options to get the laptop up and running at no cost. I ended up getting a new motherboard couriered to me, popped it in, sent the old one back and the laptop is as good as new. All for free! We'll see how long this one lasts, I have noticed a decline in quality over the last couple of years. The first Dells I bought are still running after 12 years or so. I was pretty impressed with the way they handled my complaint though.
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My Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop just had its motherboard go FUBAR on me. A quick Google search showed this is common with this POS. I am now going to get another laptop, just NOT Dell!
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Get a Mac - see my earlier posts re good service.
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