Kill Dell

[ivyfic]

My computer died last night. Again. For those of you keeping track, that's the second hard drive I've killed in six months. And of course it had to happen at 1AM when I was trying to distract myself from insomnia. So needless to say, not much sleep happened last night. I can barely focus my eyes on my computer screen (at work - is it wrong that the only reason I came in today is to use the internet?).

There will be thoughts on SW. Many thoughts. Hopefully when I get more coherent.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Uh oh, and it's a Dell? See, this is why I don't trust them. Being the biggest baddest computer dawg doesn't make them good...is it a laptop? Their laptops are supposed to be worse...if that makes you feel better which it prolly doesnt....

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Your laptop seems to have had some problems, too, you know. :P

And Torie's IBM Thinkpad had multiple harddrive failures, and I would expect better from them.

I'm not in love with Dell myself, but they've been pretty good so far, and I use them at work with few problems. If I were going to generalize I would say Compaq and Gateway were reliably crappy, though.

I just feel the need to defend Dell, because otherwise that means my laptop is doomed! And I don't want it to be doomed, particularly this summer.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ease up. I have a billion dells at home. They're more or less screwed up for being used by my family. I just heard Dells weren't that good when it came to laptops. Deal-wise, they're good, but there are better ones, obviously.

And I blame my HP problems on them merging with Compaq, which is hands down the shitiest company on earth. Of course, I bought my laptop *before* the merge...

Anyway, Gateways are bad? I just heard expensive. Sonys are mad expensive. What does that leave?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Rocks?

And mine is a desktop so most of the discussion is moot.