Dude, You Screwed Up and Bought a Dell

[SNORT!]

This Bud's Fer U, DOOOOD!

I have I Dell Dimension 4550 purchased in January 2003 and a Dell
Inspiron E1505 purchased in July 2006 and have had absolutely no
problems nor complaints with either one. My Dell monitor is starting
to get blurry when showing dark colors so I'm replacing it with an
LCD. My next computer will be built from components, not because Dell
is bad but because I want to save money.

buy a Mac :D

Have you considered buying a wireless USB mouse to use? I purchased a
dell laptop last summer and hate the mouse pads on any laptop. I
bought myself a wireless keyboard and mouse and use my laptop like a
desktop when I am at home.

I've owned (either personally or via a job) many Dell machines in my
life. Here's what I've found: the desktop machines work well. The
laptops, on the other hand, always have some sort of problem. Always.

I see now that the reference to Dell's old marketing slogan may
irritate Dell owners. I didn't intend that.

I was referring to myself; I didn't mean that everyone who's bought a
Dell screwed up.

I know *I* screwed up. I can't say how *other* people feel. If you
like your computer, love it, more power to you. I was just calling a
spade a spade from my own perspective.

I hate Dell. I have purchased 2 in 2 years. This year when my last
Dell was getting slow I wanted to upgrade it. Dell was charging me for
upgraded memory almost as much as I would pay for a brand new system.
I even stated I can buy memory off market and was told by the Dell rep
that I could not dp that because they owned the Dell parts and that my
Dell PC would not work with after market non Dell parts. I believed
him as I did not know any difference. Found out later that that was a
total lie. Anyways, instead of buying the Dell he was trying to sell
me, I went to Best Buy and bought a Compaq.

Dude, Dell sucks.

I have a Dell XPS 140 laptop. It's about three years old and it's
still working pretty good. It has the problem with the left mouse
button sort of indented, but it still retains function so I haven't
fixed it yet since it's out of warranty now.

The logos fell off where I rest my palms at and you can see the sort
of glossy look where I put my hands at from paint wearing off, but
I've seen that on tons of other makes, brands, and models.

The only thing that tends to wear out quickly is the
powercord/charger/adapter. I squeezed two years out of the battery
before I had to replace it with a new one.

All in all, my experience with dell has been good and I even receive
good customer service even though I don't have a warranty anymore. It
sucks that yours wasn't so great. :( I like Dell--yeah, I've had my
problems, but they are all right. We have three computers in the house
and they are all dell. One's nearly seven years old and is still going
along fine.

I am on my third Dell. This one is about three years old. Never had
any real issue, just an annoying language barrier when calling in once
to ask about my warranty.

Sorry it hasn't worked out for you.

So if there is nothing Dell can do, why are you writing to them? So
they will know some random person who purchased a computer from them
two years ago is unhappy? OK. Duly noted. I'm sure they'll all be
losing sleep tonight.

I can't rhyme. So just pretend I am.

Your complaining all 2 years after you bought it? You? The guy who
gives everybody else crap for the same thing?

Thats the funniest thing ever.

WOW 13 hrs on the phone did you have a stop watch?

Or did you estimate the time? Surely you didn't spend 13 hrs on just
one call.

Over 2 years ago I bought a Dell Inspiron 600m off their website.


And I love it.

And nothing you could say or do will change my opinion of the company.