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

So you screwed your friend?
At least you didn't sell that Dell here!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chun-Yu Shei" <cshei@indiana.edu>
To: "Nakayama, Marvin" <Marvin@adm.njit.edu>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: 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 18:50:05 2004