Re: [Thinkpad] any reasons not to buy dell instead of ibm

Nakayama, Marvin wrote:

>I have had 3 Thinkpads (760C, 770, T21)
>over the last 8 years, and the last 2 gave
>me lots of problems. Lots of hanging and
>crashing, problems with hard drives and
>miniPCI card, ...
>
>Now it's time to buy another laptop, and
>I'm seriously considering buying a Dell
>Latitude D600. I'm also considering an IBM
>T40 or T41, but given my experiences with
>my last 2 Thinkpads, I'm really hesitant.
>Also, the Dell will be a few hundred bucks
>cheaper.
>
>Can anyone give me any reasons why I shouldn't
>buy a Dell rather than an IBM?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Marvin
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I had a Latitude D600 for 2 1/2 months before I got this T41. I can
give you more reasons than you can imagine. Here are a few:

- D600 keyboard is really bad
- D600 pointing devices stop responding every so often (because Dell
uses ALPS, which isn't nearly as good as Synaptics) I've seen this
happen on all the D600s I've used (4 or more) and on a Toshiba that had
ALPS so it is definitely an ALPS issue
- D600 feels extremely cheap and every time I picked it up I thought I
was going to break it
- display is infereor to T41's - I put them next to each other (both
SXGA+) and compared
- speakers are horrible (not that the T41's are good, but they are at
least better than the D600's)
- port replicator port location on bottom is right where your fingers go
when you carry it
- less battery life
- heavier
- area under left palmrest gets HOT even when HD is idle - on the T41
the palmrest only gets slightly warm when you're doing intensive HD stuff
- many, many more complaints I won't bore you with

Also, on the D600 I sold to my friend, the USB ports stopped sending out
power so things like external HDs with their own power source worked,
but mice didn't. Dell came and replaced the motherboard and everything
was ok. However, this also happened on my other friend's D600 and they
came and replaced the motherboard. 1 day later, the notebook suddenly
started smelling like something was burning and then wouldn't turn on at
all. Dell refused to come fix it on-site, even though he had the 3 year
onsite warranty. He sent it in, and 2 weeks later Dell sent it back
"fixed". Now, get this, they sent it back with a *1.3* GHz Pentium M
when he originally had a *1.6*.

In short, from the experiences my friends and I have had with Dell,
NEVER buy a Dell notebook EVER EVER EVER! Ditching Dell and switching
to IBM was the best thing I ever did. Definitely spend the extra few
hundred $ - you'll be glad you did.

- Chun-Yu
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Received on Wed Mar 10 14:54:05 2004