[itguy05]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

At my work we ordered close to 150 Dell laptops for the district. 8 of the Dell laptops were DOA. Granted, 2 were probably broken during shipping because the corner of the box was bashed in.

We're returning about 6 more now that have died for one reason or another. Most of them from dead wireless chips, or whatever they have in them. One had a backlight burn out.

I can't say how that compares to other companies, that's the first time I've really run into buying over 100 computers at once. But 14 dead computers out of a 150. That seems like a lot to me. That's almost 1 dead computer for every 10.

With the 30 iBooks we purchased, 0 had problems. Though to my surprise, one of them had a nicer keyboard. So somehow 1 in 30 iBooks got a free upgrade.

Not a shocker at all. IIRC from PC Mag's reliability ratings, something like 20% of Dell's machine needed repairs. Compared to under 10% for Apple.

I've been around the business for a long time and would never buy or reccomend a Dell. They are utter garbage.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by powerule

Dell - for the money you get the best deal, dont listen to anyone telling you different. must of these readers loe the way the PB' s "look" or "feel" or they are sleek and the color etc etc....simply COSMETICS!! just read, the first thing you hear is a praise consisting of something cosmetic....

I thought it was divulging the wonders of OS X. Oh, AND it looks great.

I don't care how "cool" Dell tries to make their crap. It doesn't run OS X.

[amazing]

There's no doubt that the PBs are getting long in the tooth. Chip development just hasn't been there. The 14" 1.33 GHz iBook sitting right next to my 12" 1.33 Ghz PB has much better wireless range, and is only marginally slower, mainly because of the slower bus...

To my mind, the real reason not to go with Windows is the real climate of fear and stress that goes with the constant malware and adware attacks. Hour upon hours of updating, configuring, recovering, and mucho moolah--on a constant, daily basis. Sure you can pretty much secure the thing, but just look at toll it takes in stress and aggravation. Any little thing that goes wrong, you're dead sure you're infected, gotta use go back, even it's likely the shoddy software bugs or hardware conflicts.

When you've got Windows, paranoia strikes deep.

"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"