Inspiron 1420 arrived... SPANISH KEYBOARD?!

Well, my inspiron 1420 finally arrived today, and I must say it's quite impressive. It feels light, but very solid too. It has a nice SEC display with no graininess at all, so I'm very relieved. I would like to point out some things though:

1) It arrived with a keyboard in SPANISH!!! What is dell thinking? Hopefully I wont have to return this laptop to change it.
2) The battery is slightly loose, but nothing serious.
3) The battery charge light indicators dont work (they wont light up). I guess I'll have to ask Dell for a replacement battery.
4) There seems to be a SIM Card-like slot in the laptop, right under the battery. I hadnt read anything about that, so does anyone have an idea what it's about?

 

A spanish keyboard... ROFL!

 

LMFAO, I think your going to have to get a replacement man, sorry

 

SPANISH?? Could you post some pics of it?

The battery on my D830 is a bit loose too. It does jiggle around, but obviously does not sit flush in the housing and sinks a bit when you depress it. Solved (if you don't want to send it back) by some wads of card or paper in the battery slot.

What do you mean the battery meter won't work? When you press the button, it won't light up?

The SIM Card slot is for your WWAN provider's SIM, if you opted for one.

 

1) You can put in a new keyboard yourself in about 5 minutes.

3) Come to think of it, the battery charge light indicators on my 9 cell never work either... Hrmm...

4) That is indeed a SIM card slot. You can add WWAN via the availible slot under the keyboard, and if you service needs a SIM card you slide it in there.

 

my 9 cell lights don't work either...don't care (i have enough brain space to remember my charge, health info avail from BIOS)

i've already have had a bad hdd, optical drive...have a slightly grainy screen but now too lazy to send in for that and the battery...wtf.

 

What do you mean by "pressing the button"? There's nothing in the battery itself, but the 4 light indicators that dont turn on.

About the SIM card... I didnt request anything related to mobile broadband. I guess maybe the slot comes by default?

Here are some pics of the keyboard in spanish:

 

sorry to laugh man, but that is really funny, anyway did you do anything to get a Spanish Keyboard, do you live in a country that speaks Spainsh or something?

 

The option for a spanish keyboard was avaliable, but I chose english (even the operating system is in english). It was even confirmed by phone (it's not the first time I order a Dell). When I was unboxing the laptop I was worried about getting a grainy screen, battery wobble, the whining processor......(you know, problems discussed here). BUT i never thought that they would screw up with the keyboard.... It didnt even cross my mind. So now i have a perfectly working laptop with a mistaken keyboard. This is truly annoying, I really do hope ocellaris is right and it can be changed without sending the laptop.

 

I'd be tempted just to keep the keyboard as is if you're happy with everything else...It's kinda cool in a weird sort of way.

dordale

 

It's so annoying though. I couldnt even find the delete button. HELL, even "@" isnt Shift+2!!! It's Alt Gr + Q.

 

lmao, you could maybe call dell and ask if they could ONLY switch the keyboard and thats it.

 

I think Dell would be able to ship you a new keyboard...

 

Well that would make it quite annoying! I'd just assumed that all the keys would basically be in the same place, just labeled in Spanish. Best of luck to you!

dordale

 

holy **** that's funny... rofl.

 

sorry. pff... haaaahahaha.

 

I hope my laptop arrives safe and in english!

 

yeah it take literally 5 minutes to swap the keyboard out.. im surethey will send you one to do it yourself.. id rather do it myself then let someone else touch my brand new laptop imo

 

wow, thats funny!

 

Welcome to my world . Same with Japanese keyboards, good thing I'm used to the US keyboard layout. So it doesn't really matter what is printed on the keys as long as I have the US keyboard layout enabled. But it can be annoying at times when looking for not so frequently used symbols..

 

LOL!....
Dell should allows it's workers to sleep....i'm sorry but that is ridiculously funny

 

ive never seen that before, and im sorry for you that you had this happen, but it is quite funny!

 

i mean how does that even happen when you don't even have options of what type of keyboard you want...lol that is a huge mess-up by dell

 

Sí, esto es muy divertido!

 

This is my vote for thread of the week.

 

ROFL!!!!


Sorry.. we're not laughing "at" your laptop, were laughing "with" it.

 

The spanish keyboard is cool, I would keep it

 

Does that come with beans and rice? Was the guacamole extra?

 

LMFAO, that's the funniest sh!t i've seen in a while, fckin Dell.

 

Called Dell. They apologized for the mistake and are sending an english keyboard ASAP. A Dell technicial will replace it.