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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Banjax on 22 November 2010, 08:18:57
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it'll be rebranded "I-Land" :y
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
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The 'Celtic Tiger' is now a flea bitten old moggy. ;D
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
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Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
;D
Not just them either. I was often over in Dublin on business going back 10 years or so. Can't think of anyone who's still there for me to visit nowadays. Loads of companies got a big carrot dangled in front of them to set up there. Once the hand-outs stopped they went elsewhere. I'm afraid that's business. If you have to offer them incentives to come to you it's probably not worth their while in the long term.
Kevin
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
They atually do 'Support' then do they :-?
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
Their stuff is pretty good in fairness, though I know they went through some reliability issues with their laptops about 5yrs ago.
Their hardware support is actually very good, as good as any other large PC supplier such as HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. OK, you have to go through the scripts...
Their software support, is also probably on a par with other large suppliers in my (limited) experience (as we tend to only call PC suupliers for hardware issues - we directly call Microsoft/Oracle/Redhat etc for Windows/Solaris/Linux issues we cannot resolve internally)
And to put my money where my mouth is, the 2 desktops in my office here at home are a Dell Dimension 9200 and a Dell Dimension 4700 (which is used for electronics/eeprom stuff due to legacy ports). My own laptop is an HP 6720s, and my Tech2 laptop is a Dell Latitude (currently on holiday with Highlander Hotel21)
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I should add, the 9200 used to run OOF until a couple of years ago, when the OOF VM was migrated to Proliant hardware.
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
My HP Elitebook is the most unreliable laptop i've had, not to mention HP support, which have had it for nearly 3 weeks now and still waiting on parts >:(
Looking at what Ireland pay is though, its average is £5k more than here :o
No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
My HP Elitebook is the most unreliable laptop i've had, not to mention HP support, which have had it for nearly 3 weeks now and still waiting on parts >:(
Looking at what Ireland pay is though, its average is £5k more than here :o
No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!
Which is probably where your HP is right now ;D
Never had supply issues for parts for either brand for warranty repairs to be honest, guess its luck of the draw on the day.
Though, IIRC, your screen was abused, so if they are repairing it for free, not sure I'd rock the boat too much, if you catch my drift ;)
I do remember one daft one with Dell - I rang them when the mouse buttons had, errr, come away from the rest of the laptop ::)
Agent: "Hello, my name is blah, welcome to Dell support, how can I help you" (after the usual BS with Service Tags etc)
Me: "The mouse buttons are hanging off the laptop"
Agent: "Ah, OK, I understand. Can't you start the machine in Safe Mode"
Me: "Eh? What the... ...OK, hang on a sec... ...OK, I'm in Safe Mode"
Agent: "Is the issue any better?"
Me: "Nah, the mouse buttons haven't reattached themselves to the laptop"
Agent: "OK, sound slike it has a hardware fault then"
All fixed the next day...
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
My HP Elitebook is the most unreliable laptop i've had, not to mention HP support, which have had it for nearly 3 weeks now and still waiting on parts >:(
Looking at what Ireland pay is though, its average is £5k more than here :o
No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!
Which is probably where your HP is right now ;D
Never had supply issues for parts for either brand for warranty repairs to be honest, guess its luck of the draw on the day.
Though, IIRC, your screen was abused, so if they are repairing it for free, not sure I'd rock the boat too much, if you catch my drift ;)
I do remember one daft one with Dell - I rang them when the mouse buttons had, errr, come away from the rest of the laptop ::)
Agent: "Hello, my name is blah, welcome to Dell support, how can I help you" (after the usual BS with Service Tags etc)
Me: "The mouse buttons are hanging off the laptop"
Agent: "Ah, OK, I understand. Can't you start the machine in Safe Mode"
Me: "Eh? What the... ...OK, hang on a sec... ...OK, I'm in Safe Mode"
Agent: "Is the issue any better?"
Me: "Nah, the mouse buttons haven't reattached themselves to the laptop"
Agent: "OK, sound slike it has a hardware fault then"
All fixed the next day...
;D ;D ;D :y
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
Their stuff is pretty good in fairness, though I know they went through some reliability issues with their laptops about 5yrs ago.
Their hardware support is actually very good, as good as any other large PC supplier such as HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. OK, you have to go through the scripts...
Their software support, is also probably on a par with other large suppliers in my (limited) experience (as we tend to only call PC suupliers for hardware issues - we directly call Microsoft/Oracle/Redhat etc for Windows/Solaris/Linux issues we cannot resolve internally)
And to put my money where my mouth is, the 2 desktops in my office here at home are a Dell Dimension 9200 and a Dell Dimension 4700 (which is used for electronics/eeprom stuff due to legacy ports). My own laptop is an HP 6720s, and my Tech2 laptop is a Dell Latitude (currently on holiday with Highlander Hotel21)
It was a lap top they had a nightmare with
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
My HP Elitebook is the most unreliable laptop i've had, not to mention HP support, which have had it for nearly 3 weeks now and still waiting on parts >:(
Looking at what Ireland pay is though, its average is £5k more than here :o
No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!
Which is probably where your HP is right now ;D
Never had supply issues for parts for either brand for warranty repairs to be honest, guess its luck of the draw on the day.
Though, IIRC, your screen was abused, so if they are repairing it for free, not sure I'd rock the boat too much, if you catch my drift ;)
I do remember one daft one with Dell - I rang them when the mouse buttons had, errr, come away from the rest of the laptop ::)
Agent: "Hello, my name is blah, welcome to Dell support, how can I help you" (after the usual BS with Service Tags etc)
Me: "The mouse buttons are hanging off the laptop"
Agent: "Ah, OK, I understand. Can't you start the machine in Safe Mode"
Me: "Eh? What the... ...OK, hang on a sec... ...OK, I'm in Safe Mode"
Agent: "Is the issue any better?"
Me: "Nah, the mouse buttons haven't reattached themselves to the laptop"
Agent: "OK, sound slike it has a hardware fault then"
All fixed the next day...
Don't be stupid, those robbing gits want £90
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
Their stuff is pretty good in fairness, though I know they went through some reliability issues with their laptops about 5yrs ago.
Their hardware support is actually very good, as good as any other large PC supplier such as HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. OK, you have to go through the scripts...
Their software support, is also probably on a par with other large suppliers in my (limited) experience (as we tend to only call PC suupliers for hardware issues - we directly call Microsoft/Oracle/Redhat etc for Windows/Solaris/Linux issues we cannot resolve internally)
And to put my money where my mouth is, the 2 desktops in my office here at home are a Dell Dimension 9200 and a Dell Dimension 4700 (which is used for electronics/eeprom stuff due to legacy ports). My own laptop is an HP 6720s, and my Tech2 laptop is a Dell Latitude (currently on holiday with Highlander Hotel21)
It was a lap top they had a nightmare with
So you are basing your entire view of a company on somebody else's experience with a single item :o
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i'd take a Dell over HP any day!
I have no real preference either way. We use an awful lot of HP and Dell laptops and desktops at work, all much of a muchness. HP keyboards are definately stronger ::)
Both seem to suffer the most failures with disks and optical drives, which is to be expected. Neither better than other from that point of view, as they use the same components.
My HP Elitebook is the most unreliable laptop i've had, not to mention HP support, which have had it for nearly 3 weeks now and still waiting on parts >:(
Looking at what Ireland pay is though, its average is £5k more than here :o
No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!
Which is probably where your HP is right now ;D
Never had supply issues for parts for either brand for warranty repairs to be honest, guess its luck of the draw on the day.
Though, IIRC, your screen was abused, so if they are repairing it for free, not sure I'd rock the boat too much, if you catch my drift ;)
I do remember one daft one with Dell - I rang them when the mouse buttons had, errr, come away from the rest of the laptop ::)
Agent: "Hello, my name is blah, welcome to Dell support, how can I help you" (after the usual BS with Service Tags etc)
Me: "The mouse buttons are hanging off the laptop"
Agent: "Ah, OK, I understand. Can't you start the machine in Safe Mode"
Me: "Eh? What the... ...OK, hang on a sec... ...OK, I'm in Safe Mode"
Agent: "Is the issue any better?"
Me: "Nah, the mouse buttons haven't reattached themselves to the laptop"
Agent: "OK, sound slike it has a hardware fault then"
All fixed the next day...
Don't be stupid, those robbing gits want £90
Ah, good, it was abuse, so should be chargable.
They've probably run out of screens, because I've just had a shitload of new Elitebooks dumped on my desk apparently. I'll do the usual trick to clear a space - push 'em towards the round recycling receptacle on the floor ;D
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
Their stuff is pretty good in fairness, though I know they went through some reliability issues with their laptops about 5yrs ago.
Their hardware support is actually very good, as good as any other large PC supplier such as HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. OK, you have to go through the scripts...
Their software support, is also probably on a par with other large suppliers in my (limited) experience (as we tend to only call PC suupliers for hardware issues - we directly call Microsoft/Oracle/Redhat etc for Windows/Solaris/Linux issues we cannot resolve internally)
And to put my money where my mouth is, the 2 desktops in my office here at home are a Dell Dimension 9200 and a Dell Dimension 4700 (which is used for electronics/eeprom stuff due to legacy ports). My own laptop is an HP 6720s, and my Tech2 laptop is a Dell Latitude (currently on holiday with Highlander Hotel21)
It was a lap top they had a nightmare with
So you are basing your entire view of a company on somebody else's experience with a single item :o
I have heard of a few other issues but I don't keep a list do I?
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I need a shake head smilie...
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I need a shake head smilie...
I think you need one of these more...(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-angry003.gif)
;)
Kevin
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I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds
Direland???
Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill
Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.
How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference ;)
They are just the most well known recent mover.
I wouldn't buy their stuff anyway - I have seen what happens with their support :(
Their stuff is pretty good in fairness, though I know they went through some reliability issues with their laptops about 5yrs ago.
Their hardware support is actually very good, as good as any other large PC supplier such as HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. OK, you have to go through the scripts...
Their software support, is also probably on a par with other large suppliers in my (limited) experience (as we tend to only call PC suupliers for hardware issues - we directly call Microsoft/Oracle/Redhat etc for Windows/Solaris/Linux issues we cannot resolve internally)
And to put my money where my mouth is, the 2 desktops in my office here at home are a Dell Dimension 9200 and a Dell Dimension 4700 (which is used for electronics/eeprom stuff due to legacy ports). My own laptop is an HP 6720s, and my Tech2 laptop is a Dell Latitude (currently on holiday with Highlander Hotel21)
It was a lap top they had a nightmare with
So you are basing your entire view of a company on somebody else's experience with a single item :o
Eh no , it was ALL AMD powered DV6000, DV9000, and Compag, I think G5000. Face it their designers don't really "do" heat calcs. Their NX9010's used to wear out the graphics Chip soldered joints 'cause of the old heating/cooling cycle breaking down the soldered joints, and that was with leaded solder. Imagine how crap they are with lead free. They tried sticking down BGA's with an epoxy glue to stop the BGA moving too much. This just means that the BGA and PCB bend upwards and downwards, breaking the middle joints, and its impossible to take off a faulty IC without grinding away the glue, cause there 'aint a way of dissolving epoxy without destroying the PCB.
They really have to rethink design of laptops if they are going to make them reliable.
Ken