Quarantine
June 30th, 2010, 06:09 PM
You might think that Dell makes nice laptops and pcs and they certainly look nice. But they suck, and their quality is no where near the other well known brands. I for one certainly stopped liking and buying their products since 2002 when I wanted to buy a laptop and the shop asked me to fill out a 7 page application asking for all sorts of personal details and asking if I was going to use the pc in any sort of way to develop biological chemical or nuclear weapons.......whaaaaaaaaat?
And I would hate to see the opportunity to spread the word about dell's poor standards pass me by, so here's one recent finding.
"Documents show that Dell knowingly sold defective computers, misled those needing support"
What happens when capacitors go bad, spewing out their tangerine innards like the ones in the photo above? Components die. In the early to mid naughties there was a rash of failures, the so-called "capacitor plague" that affected many manufacturers thanks to millions of bogus units filled with an electrolyte mixture that was a bit off. However, nobody was quite affected like Dell. The company took a $300 million charge in 2005 to cover costs related to the faulty machines that went out with these components, and now we're getting a better picture of just how bad it was -- and continues to be.
According to recently released documents stemming from a three year-old lawsuit, Dell not only knew about the bogus components but some of its employees were actively told to play dumb, one memo sent to customer service reps telling them to "avoid all language indicating the boards were bad or had issues." Meanwhile, sales teams were still selling funky OptiPlex machines, which during that period had a 97 percent failure rate according to Dell's own study. (And you thought the Xbox 360 had problems.) With that on the minds of shoppers, plus Throttlegate and some other recent laptop quality issues, we have to think consumer confidence for Dell must be at an all-time low at the moment.
source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/technology/29dell.html?adxnnl=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1277895878-r4fZqd8kAqvHWMEtVhwlCA
You might have Dells in your home, you might disagree with me to justify your investment, you might consider a failure to be be a normal electronic occurrence, and you might continue to buy Dell. Just make sure you don't use them to develop any sort of weapons.
rant over
And I would hate to see the opportunity to spread the word about dell's poor standards pass me by, so here's one recent finding.
"Documents show that Dell knowingly sold defective computers, misled those needing support"
What happens when capacitors go bad, spewing out their tangerine innards like the ones in the photo above? Components die. In the early to mid naughties there was a rash of failures, the so-called "capacitor plague" that affected many manufacturers thanks to millions of bogus units filled with an electrolyte mixture that was a bit off. However, nobody was quite affected like Dell. The company took a $300 million charge in 2005 to cover costs related to the faulty machines that went out with these components, and now we're getting a better picture of just how bad it was -- and continues to be.
According to recently released documents stemming from a three year-old lawsuit, Dell not only knew about the bogus components but some of its employees were actively told to play dumb, one memo sent to customer service reps telling them to "avoid all language indicating the boards were bad or had issues." Meanwhile, sales teams were still selling funky OptiPlex machines, which during that period had a 97 percent failure rate according to Dell's own study. (And you thought the Xbox 360 had problems.) With that on the minds of shoppers, plus Throttlegate and some other recent laptop quality issues, we have to think consumer confidence for Dell must be at an all-time low at the moment.
source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/technology/29dell.html?adxnnl=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1277895878-r4fZqd8kAqvHWMEtVhwlCA
You might have Dells in your home, you might disagree with me to justify your investment, you might consider a failure to be be a normal electronic occurrence, and you might continue to buy Dell. Just make sure you don't use them to develop any sort of weapons.
rant over