I praise dell NO MORE

[somdebay]

I am sitting there on my laptop at my desk, out of no where while checking my e-mail my hard drive starts to click...my computer shuts down, my hard drive is dead. AND because my warranty is up DELL wants to charge me $40 for a phone call! **** DELL! it was only 2 years old

*end rant*

so anyways, I'm going to buy a new desktop computer tomorrow at least with those I can change the parts out myself.

Any suggestions?

Good and bad of towers you own?

 

[ylexot]

You can usually change the hard drives in laptops :shrug:

 

[somdebay]

You can usually change the hard drives in laptops :shrug:

yeah i know, but they are just too touchy for my liking, its easy to change out the hard drive, but my most recent back up doesnt have the important information that i need, as it was accrued over the last month and didn't get around to backing it up...

so the laptop is just a useless box...plus, desktops are just more fun for me...all is well.

 

[somdebay]

Not at all difficult to replace HD in a modern dell laptop

yeah, i know i took it out and smashed it . thats what it gets for breaking on me. just 2 little screws and it slides out.

 

[somdebay]

the HD, nah...thanks...but im done with the laptop...i wasn't that impressed with it anyway...i could get a HD on ebay for $20...im just going to parts out the laptop and make what i can off the ram and battery, screen, etc. and get a tower.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

yeah i know, but they are just too touchy for my liking, its easy to change out the hard drive, but my most recent back up doesnt have the important information that i need, as it was accrued over the last month and didn't get around to backing it up...

so the laptop is just a useless box...plus, desktops are just more fun for me...all is well.

It's not the laptop you dimwitted piece of crap. It's the hard drive. First of all, the "TravelStar" hard drives suck. Period. End of story.

Buy a Toshiba 3.5" hard drive and you can get an external 3.5" hard drive enclosure for $10.

I have a DELL laptop and it works great.

Oh, and if you didn't back up your data - that's your own fault. You seem like a smart person - you should know better.

What model laptop is it. I can always use spare DELL parts myself (including screens).

PM me about the laptop.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

You can usually change the hard drives in laptops :shrug:

I have two DELL laptops. They work pretty well. :shrug:

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

I'm still confused on why you say laptop hard drives are too touchy.

I've replaced 2.5" hard drives more times than you can count.

 

[Seraphin]

I have a Dell and a Gateway. The only problem I've had with my dell is that the keyboard has keys popping off of it The gateway was brand new and the motherboard died it was a real pain in the popper to get that straightened out.

 

[kom526]

Duuuude, ya shoulda got a mac.

 

[somdebay]

It's not the laptop you dimwitted piece of crap. It's the hard drive. First of all, the "TravelStar" hard drives suck. Period. End of story.

Buy a Toshiba 3.5" hard drive and you can get an external 3.5" hard drive enclosure for $10.

I have a DELL laptop and it works great.

Oh, and if you didn't back up your data - that's your own fault. You seem like a smart person - you should know better.

What model laptop is it. I can always use spare DELL parts myself (including screens).

PM me about the laptop.

shut up you dumb piece of shiat...and for your information it was already a Toshiba drive in there, NOT travelstar...shows what you know retard...

I WAS JUST ASKING FOR WHAT PEOPLE LIKED AS FAR AS DESKTOPS WENT, SO GO BACK TO YOUR LITTLE HOLE AND REPORT YOUR **BREAKING NEWS**

 

[somdebay]

I'm still confused on why you say laptop hard drives are too touchy.

I've replaced 2.5" hard drives more times than you can count.

not the replacing of it you retard, just the drive itself...don't start commenting in stuff you have no idea about. and NO im not saying you don't know anything about computers, im sure you are a pimply faced freak who spends all day in front of the computer ok.

 

[bfncbs1]

not the replacing of it you retard, just the drive itself...don't start commenting in stuff you have no idea about. and NO im not saying you don't know anything about computers, im sure you are a pimply faced freak who spends all day in front of the computer ok.

 

[vanbells]

I just hate Dell's customer support.

 

[ylexot]

Duuuude, ya shoulda got a mac.

Macs use the same hard drives :shrug:

 

[itsbob]

Hard drives have a lot of moving parts, and with anything with moving parts, it's going to break.. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but sooner or later it's going to break.

AND if the average lifespan is (for example) 10,000 hours. you may be the lucky SOB that gets the one that lasts 100,000 hours, OR you might be the unlucky SOB that gets one that lasts 10..

 

[Mousebaby]

I have to Dell Laptops and a Dell Desktop, I haven't had really any major problems with mine. I was smart enough to buy the 4 yr. warranty though. I also got the accidental breakage coverage because I'm a clutz! I agree with itsbob it all depends on the luck of the draw sometimes!

 

[twobit]

I'll buy the laptop from you....how much do you want?

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

not the replacing of it you retard, just the drive itself...don't start commenting in stuff you have no idea about. and NO im not saying you don't know anything about computers, im sure you are a pimply faced freak who spends all day in front of the computer ok.

Stuff I have no idea about? You just lost yourself alot of credibility. At least my DELL laptops work.

 

[somdebay]

I just hate Dell's customer support.

yeah no kidding, after the HD took a crap, I attempted to start up a few times just to be sure thats what it was, then I go a dell screen saying i needed to contact dell to get a password to get access to MY data...they wanted to charge me $40 for that...um thanks but no thanks, i can re-rip all of my music.