On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:45:39 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Allums wrote: > > >> In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine > >> initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if > >> you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you > >> just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be more. > >> > >> raju > > > > > > Don't blame Dell for the video being defective, in this case. The > > culprit is NVidia, and all laptop makers are at their mercy. (Other > > issues, like battery life, I have no knowledge of, and cannot speak to.) > > > > I did not blame Dell just because I had problems with my laptop. I reached > at that conclusion after watching my friends laptops' performance etc., At > least five friends of mine who bought Dell laptops have had various > problems. > I saw that with quite a few consumer laptops. Unless you really baby them they start falling apart after about a year. > What I have observed (over the past 4 years or so) is that, typically after > 1 year (and even before 2 years) things start going bad. It could be a hard > drive failure, it could be that fans stop working (so the processor heats > up... leading to its failure), it could be black spots on the monitor, it > could be power supply failure, it could be mother board going bad. In my > case it just happens to be battery, faulty video card. > > The fact of the matter is Dell's laptops are made with "cheap" (quality > wise) hardware. So they cost less. If you can put in more money, and if you > would like to use the same laptops for more than 1-2 years go for some > other brand. I do not know what that other brand should be. But I do know > that Dell laptops are not the correct investment for a long term reliable > laptop. > > hth > raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
