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Anyone here have a Dell ?
Discuss Anyone here have a Dell ?
Posted by: TheOne
Anyone here have a Dell ?
When did you buy it?
Does it have any problems?
I'm thinking of buying a Dell XPS, as I heard they include the OS cd.
Posted by: stevelll
friend of mine has a dimension 2400 d/top. he's quite happy. . . had to add a new IDE to fit a burner but thats all. he tells me the chipsets are soldered to prevent shake rattle &roll during shipping!
Posted by: Quantum
Is it Dimension or Inspirion XPS? I used an Inspirion XPS and it keep crashing while playing Call of Duty yet a Dimension 2400 ran it fine.
Posted by: TheOne
Dimension Gen 3 XPS.
Posted by: Quantum
It's fine.
Posted by: U-Toast
y dont u make a custom pc? itl be a lil cheaper, and prolly better for same price. But with dell u get a better warrenty prolly, and all preinstalled. We have a pretty old 800 mgz dell, still works good, havnt had problems. It would def be better than getting a hp or sony in a store.
Posted by: Qiranworms
Anyone have a Dell? Wish I didn't.
They advertise their 'award winning customer service'...that award was won in 1998. How can there customer service win any awards...when it DOESN'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE!
Just hope no parts die...if you manage to convince them that you need a replacement within two weeks I'll be impressed. It took 20 calls (all with huge amounts of wait times)...and tons of bouncing around from department to department to get them to replace the defective 802.11b card that shipped preinstalled with his laptop. It was over a month before he had a working card.
I would advise building your own machine. You can get the same performance as the Dell (if you buy the same parts), or better. I would actually advise an AMD CPU over the Intels Dell always ships computers with.
Dell products, excluding their desktops, are often of quite cheap quality. Their desktops are more acceptable. The main problem with Dell is the way they treat customers.
Posted by: Quantum
How does Dell treat thier customers? I bought a notebook from them and the hard drive is beginning to make a whiring noise each time I change the wallpaper and save a file. I just hope I don't get India on the phone.
Posted by: TheOne
I heard it's better to email Dell instead of calling on the phone, most likely you'll get someone with a heavy accent.
Posted by: Quantum
Oh India. I love those guys. If it wasn't for them, Americans wouldn't need to be temps jsut to work there.
Posted by: techserv
ALWAYS email Dell instead of calling them. I have had 3 defective parts in the last 5 years of dealing with quite a few Dells. Each time I sent them an email describing the problem and the troubleshooting that I had already done. Each time I had my replacement part on my door step within 48 hours. They even sent me some replacement rubber feet for my laptop overnight at no charge (still under warranty).
Posted by: pAce
i have a dimension 8200 and it is pretty good, can't overclock it, and it was shipped with rdram which is very expensive to upgrade from 512 to 1 gig. I would definetly build one or get one online from a company that builds them for you for a resonable price. i forgot the link so if anyone knows what im talking about you should post it. i think it is computer something .com