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. 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 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
