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[Banjax]

it'll be rebranded "I-Land" 

[Martin_1962]

I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds

[Chris_H]

I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds

Direland???

[markfree]

The 'Celtic Tiger' is now a flea bitten old moggy. 

[Martin_1962]

I think Dell should bail them out - the b*****ds

Direland???

Since Dell are partly responsible they should help foot the bill

[TheBoy]

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

[Kevin Wood]

Thats a huge step to make, worthy of a BBC Panorama comment.

How can a tinpot yankee computer firm make that much difference

 

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

[Martin_1962]

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

[Gaffers]

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  :-?

[TheBoy]

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)

[TheBoy]

I should add, the 9200 used to run OOF until a couple of years ago, when the OOF VM was migrated to Proliant hardware.

[tunnie]

i'd take a Dell over HP any day!

[TheBoy]

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.

[tunnie]

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 

No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!

[TheBoy]

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 

No wonder Dell are shifting production to Poland!

Which is probably where your HP is right now

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...