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12-14-2008, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Central NY
Moto: 2003 SV650S
Posts: 14,959
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wait until you have to call tech support...
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12-14-2008, 04:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Austin, Texas, USA, Earth, Sol, Western Spiral Arm, Milky Way
Moto: 1993 K75SA
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My old IBM ThinkPad X30 is still ticking flawlessly after almost 5 years. The real "trick" to long laptop use is to:
a) Not Drop it regularly b) Get the best (i.e. best physical damage protection) laptop bag/case money can buy c) Not spill liquids into it d) ALL OF THE ABOVE Just in case you weren't paying attention - the correct answer is D...  If you have random pockets of locally heavy gravity in your vicinity, get one of the 'hardened'/MilSpec laptops from Panasonic, et. al. YMMV... 
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12-14-2008, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL
Moto: 2008 Black/Grey Hayabusa
Posts: 1,406
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Anyways, back to Dell. I can't complian, they do their job and honestly if I had to choose between HP basic tech support and Dell basic tech support, I'd choose Dell. Dell's are good for general use systems..... But on servers and what not (i know this was about laptops) I'd go HP all-day-long.
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12-14-2008, 08:25 PM
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BOOBS!!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Saratoga, NY
Moto: 06 CBR 600RR
Posts: 1,188
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love my dell and havent had any problems with tech support
they had to come to my house 2 times to repair the case but nothing internal |
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12-15-2008, 12:09 AM
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Trip's Assistant
 
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Imported from Detroit
Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic
Posts: 12,149
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FUCK DELL TECH SUPPORT.
But I have heard the trick to getting an american is to NOT call during non-biz hrs |
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12-15-2008, 10:11 AM
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Nomadic Tribesman
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
Moto: '09 ER-6n
Posts: 11,150
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I, and 5 other guys, ARE Dell tech support on campus. All repairs to these models are done in-house. I'm a certified tech for Latitude, Optiplex, and Precision systems. Since going to Dell we've had far fewer problems.
The Latitude and Precision notebooks take a fair bit more abuse than do the Inspirons. Odd, since most home users are far more abusive of equipment than are corporate users, in my experience. |
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12-15-2008, 10:13 AM
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Post whorette
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South Florida
Moto: 2006 GSXR 600-
Posts: 3,992
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I do know that Sony Vaio's don't like coffee in the keyboard.
Now I have a Compaq. and coffee is not anywhere near this one 
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12-15-2008, 10:43 AM
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Moto GP Star
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 12,156
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Ah shit, I have a 1 year old 1721... it better not fuck up on me, but got the 3 year warranty with it.
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