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    Whats so bad about having a Dell?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by rsarno, Mar 11, 2009.

  1. tjmartin

    tjmartin Newbie

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    I never got any recovery disks with my dell.....all i got was a dell branded disk with Win XP on it and a dell drivers CD that doesnt even have half the drivers for this system.....I have a 355 internal bluetooth card, ATI X1400 graphics, Draft N card....yet none of those drivers are on CD

    Point blank Dell sucks IMO
     
  2. tjmartin

    tjmartin Newbie

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    Thanks, but no thanks for your post...I dont need your sarcasm thank you

    Like I said before dell sucks
     
  3. Theros123

    Theros123 Web Designer & Developer

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    And no, that wasn't sarcasm. I really meant every word of that post.

    But anyway, as with my Latitude E6400, Dell only gave me a Dell branded OEM version of Vista Business that only installed a clean version of Vista and not a pre-fab factory image. Therefore, that means no drivers and no bloatware on the first boot up. Probably not the best set up for the average consumer to content with...but that shouldn't be a problem with most people on this forum.

    What laptop do you have?
     
  4. fernandez21

    fernandez21 Notebook Consultant

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    I actually prefer this, as I can format my computer, do a completely clean install, and grab all the updated drivers from dells website. sure it takes some time to get everything set up, but in the end the computer runs sooooo well.
     
  5. fernandez21

    fernandez21 Notebook Consultant

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    I really like dells, and most people I know also like dells. Pretty funny when I think of it, no one I know prefers apple. I've now owned 3 dell laptops, my first 2 were inspirons (8500 and 1505), then I got an HP last december, hated it and sold it in feb. using those funds for my SXPS13. All my dell laptops have been well built, only problems I've had with hardware were either user abuse (my son tore arpart the keyboard for my 1505) or age (after 3 years one of the ram chips in my 8500 stopped working), and both times dell replaced and repaired the computers under warrantee (even the 1505 wich I did tell them my son broke it)
     
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