I completely agree with Mr. Chehade.
Mr. Majid Awad, I do not work for a company that has hundreds of
laptop. I only have 1 laptop, but I guarantee you that the next one
will not run on Intel.
Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Gilles Chehade wrote:
Mr. Majid Awad,
I have recently been provided with a DELL laptop at work which runs
Windows and OpenBSD.
I have recently bought a VAIO laptop for personal use which runs OpenBSD.
These two laptops have a point in common. ALL of the hardware is
recognized and works ...
except for the Intel wifi chipsets. About four days ago, at an
airport, I had written code that I needed
to synchronize with the current code base at work. This forced me to
keep booting between Windows
and my working operating system so that I could actually work and make
the changes visible for the
people at my company by ... using the network. You can't imagine how
irritable one can get when
spending time waiting for a couple systems to boot about twenty times
within a few hours. This has
wasted both me and my company a lot of time and money. And worst of
all, this is how we are
treated for trusting your company and SPENDING MONEY on its hardware.
I just got back from my business trip and first thing I'll do tomorrow
is discuss with the decision
takers at work so that they contact dell and tell them the Intel based
hardware is not working
and we need it replaced (oh don't worry that's just about a hundred
laptops, it won't affect your
sales that much). And for my personal use, this is the last time I buy
a laptop or desktop with
Intel hardware in it, I have wasted enough time with your integrated
graphic chipsets and your
integrated wifi chipsets, I can't even recall how many times I got
angry at some of your hardware
not being working properly (or at all) because you refuse to cooperate
with ... your customers.
I'd rather spend my money on something that works and keep a smile on
my face while working.
I am angry and you lost a customer.
