Dell Laptops

[Blonk]

Dell... The "Makita" of the IT world......

[Blonk]

But not the Metabo or Hilti

[Antisocial]

Purely from user point of view - I have 1 Dell notebook (4 years old now) and 4 Dell desktops. I have not had a major problem with any so I have not had to call on for after sales service. With regards to technical difficulties or phone advice it depende on who is on the other end - if they know their craft they can diagnose your problem before you complete the symptoms list and provide a solution quick smart  

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No offence to any one who works for Ding Dong Dell but they don't seem to have those sort of folk on the other end of the phone.

Just trained monkey type of job where all they have to do is punch your sympoms into their computer, and the soultion database gives them a list of..

"Try turning the PC off and back on again" type solutions....

Failing that it then decides what parts to order and when they arrive, a dude collects them and comes to install them into your dead laptop in a effort to revive it.

Most times when they arrive they say something allong the lines of "oh that's the problem, these parts wont fix that, why the hell do........" etc etc.

[Antisocial]

I have a Dell $999 special  desktop and haven't had any problems for the ~2 years I've owned it.

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You all know I am never one to put on Ross.

But desktops are a totally different beast to laptops, and infact Dell make very good desktops. I would have no problems spending my own money on a Ding Dong desktop.

But never a laptop.

But you can never trust anything I tell you, because I am the same person who baged out the F6 and told mercturbo I wanted to buy his GT. Yet now I drive a P76....no wait that didn't come out right.

[DallasQLD]

I have 10 DELL laptops, not a problem with any of them.

Dallas

[yeec]

Just bought a Dell Inspiron 9300, 2ghz, 533mhz fsb,100gb hdd, 1024mb ddr2 ram, dvd+-DL, 128mb x300 graphics card, bluetooth, 17" widescreen 1920x1200 resolution, wireless b/g, latest senoma centrino, 6xusb2.0, firewire 400, dvi, free 3-in-1 printer, free laptop backpack, larger battery, paid less than $3200 delivered after utilizing a $400 off online coupon, then got it salary packaged so it cost me $1600 after tax, then will claim the gst back when I go to NZ in a couple of weeks, hence costing me a total of just over $1300 !!! Am very pleased with it, comparable to the IBM and HP's I had before, couldn't be happier !