Dell support expected me to take apart a laptop as part of their support effort. I'd love to see them try that with my mother or sister. Or you know, the average laptop buyer. I refuse to buy Dells for the family anymore.
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§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 10:29:12 am PDT #17950 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SuziQ - Sep 28, 2011 10:33:44 am PDT #17951 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Our work computers are Dells and I've had pretty good luck with them. That said, my next home laptop will likely not be a Dell. We have a Windows store near us and I'm thinking of going there.
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2011 10:34:07 am PDT #17952 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh wait, you were saying Dell is bad ? Oh, good, they're not in the running anyway!
SuziQ - Sep 28, 2011 10:35:07 am PDT #17953 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My work Dell is great. My home Dell has been fine, but since I can customize all the features, I usually go overboard and I really don't need anything fancy.
Beverly - Sep 28, 2011 11:07:56 am PDT #17954 of 25501
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
My last three laptops were HPs, I banged the hell out of them and ran them like mushers, and I love HPs to pieces. You take the logos off all the display models in Best Buy and watch my sticky fingers reach for the HPs. H is a Toshiba fan. It's a personal preference.
I'm not saying there aren't better machines. I just *like* HPs. They feel good, they look good to me, and I can't fault their performance, other than battery life. And that has gotten better.
NoiseDesign - Sep 28, 2011 12:41:43 pm PDT #17955 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I've got three Toshibas that are all over 5 years old and still run just fine. Mechanically they are great, they are just way out of date now.
For customer service and build quality I end up buying Apple, even when I reformat them and install Windows for the OS. I've got 10 Mac Minis running Windows 7 at the moment.
Typo Boy - Sep 28, 2011 12:48:42 pm PDT #17956 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not under a virtual window or on a seperate partition but as the sole or main OS?
NoiseDesign - Sep 28, 2011 12:55:33 pm PDT #17957 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Yep, I've installed it as the main OS on many machines. I usually keep a small partition that is running MacOS, but not always, and even on those machines that have the partition many of them will spend years never getting booted into the MacOS. I a machine installed out in Florida that's a Mac running Windows 7. I don't think it's seen the MacOS since I put it in at least two years ago.
omnis_audis - Sep 28, 2011 1:13:59 pm PDT #17958 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Poor thing feels like a twin separated at birth.
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2011 1:21:31 pm PDT #17959 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I found the Lenovo IdeaPad I want in the nice gunmetal grey on Amazon (via Circuit City, who I guess has gone online-only now), so I'm going to finally get around to dumping my bag of change into Coinstar and see how big of an Amazon gift certificate I can get out of it. I am looking forward to the RapidBoot and OneKey Theatre business, and I hope I wasn't imagining the fact that I ended up liking the keyboard and numpad after a few minutes of thinking they were cramped. I don't know, I would probably like the Toshiba Satellite too.
Maybe it's not the right decision, but it's not the wrong decision!