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Old Jan 3rd 2006, 5:24 am
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Originally Posted by wsbtroyno21
We are thinking about buying a laptop. I have been looking on the internet and as with most things the choice and price range is huge. I had a look at Dell's Australian website and they are offering free delivery, free screen upgrade, free memory upgrade and free hard drive storage upgrade. ( http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/prod...=au&l=en&s=dhs )


Has anyone used Dell before? Are they any good or would we be better just buying from a shop?

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Wendy
As part of my job, I have to use a lap top a lot when travelling and they got a lot of use and abuse.
Dell is perfect for this and reliable.
I do agree that the support centre in India is far from perfect and I don't understand how they can justify employing staff with such poor command of the English language.
I would add - DO NOT BUY A DELL PRINTER. Apart from being "average" quality, they plough through ink, cartridges are expensive and only available through Dell and it is impossible to default the print setting to economy mode.

I have a small but powerful Dell lap top, 3.5 yrs old now so getting on a bit. I dock it at home to a decent flat LCD screen and full size keyboard and mouse. I would recommend doing the same.

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Originally Posted by andrew63
As part of my job, I have to use a lap top a lot when travelling and they got a lot of use and abuse.
Dell is perfect for this and reliable.
I do agree that the support centre in India is far from perfect and I don't understand how they can justify employing staff with such poor command of the English language.
I would add - DO NOT BUY A DELL PRINTER. Apart from being "average" quality, they plough through ink, cartridges are expensive and only available through Dell and it is impossible to default the print setting to economy mode.

I have a small but powerful Dell lap top, 3.5 yrs old now so getting on a bit. I dock it at home to a decent flat LCD screen and full size keyboard and mouse. I would recommend doing the same.

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Hi Wendy,

I don't consider myself an expert but seeing as I have been working in IT for 10 years now perhaps my advice will help you out - I bought a Dell desktop much to my surprise (I always thought Dell was no good and had heard lots of bad things about them), but I have to say apart from the ATI graphics card being a bit buggy due to Windows more than the card, I have been very happy with my purchase for what I describe as a "package pc" i.e. one I have not built myself.

It has been reliable and consistent once I upgraded the driver from the ATI website and there is plenty of room for upgrade so if that is anything to go buy, then a Dell laptop would probably be ok - but are you going to get a 64 bit pc?

Philip.

Originally Posted by wsbtroyno21
We are thinking about buying a laptop. I have been looking on the internet and as with most things the choice and price range is huge. I had a look at Dell's Australian website and they are offering free delivery, free screen upgrade, free memory upgrade and free hard drive storage upgrade. ( http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/prod...=au&l=en&s=dhs )


Has anyone used Dell before? Are they any good or would we be better just buying from a shop?

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.

Wendy
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Old Jan 3rd 2006, 5:34 am
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Tell us what exactly do you want...
This thread goes as if "every mouth has it own taste", replace mouth = experience.
If you tell us your specs, I think there will be more i/p to this.
I took lots of feedback from BE, but did what I found to be best in budget sense. Also there were lots of valuable i/p from BE which helped me to make decisions...
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Was it imp to put "Indian support centre". nyways people across Europe and in Australia a bit sentimental about India, you are adding fuel to it..

We should stop being sarcastic or being anti religious... This will solve world 1/2 of the problem. Other 1/3 can be solved by environmental problems..


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Who the hell was being sarcastis OR Anti-religous?????

The poster was simply highlighting that the Indian Support Centre wasn't very good!
Hell, it could have been in Outer Mongolia...who cares? The fact is, it's an important factor when buying new equipment, and one that should be taken into account!!
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Who the hell was being sarcastis OR Anti-religous?????

The poster was simply highlighting that the Indian Support Centre wasn't very good!
Hell, it could have been in Outer Mongolia...who cares? The fact is, it's an important factor when buying new equipment, and one that should be taken into account!!
And my question is how did you know that your call was picked up by Indiaaaaaaaaaan?
Those Taiwan, Indonesian etc call centre guys are so crapy, its all blamed on Indian in name of Asian...
I found it to be so stupid they cant even pronounce the name properly, well "Blame it on Rio ", if you remember Michale Caine ...
And you should not ask me why I know that much about Dell...
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And my question is how did you know that your call was picked up by Indiaaaaaaaaaan?
Those Taiwan, Indonesian etc call centre guys are so crapy, its all blamed on Indian in name of Asian...
I found it to be so stupid they cant even pronounce the name properly, well "Blame it on Rio ", if you remember Michale Caine ...
And you should not ask me why I know that much about Dell...
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A suggestion!

Go away, learn to make your posts understandable in plain English, then come back, and perhaps we can then debate the issue!!
As it stands at the moment, I haven't got a clue what the heck you are on about!!
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A suggestion!

Go away, learn to make your posts understandable in plain English, then come back, and perhaps we can then debate the issue!!
As it stands at the moment, I haven't got a clue what the heck you are on about!!
oops, and I wrote german.
Pal I dont know more how to put is simple. I think I should start like this, just the heck of it
A = Aamerica
b = baalgeria
c = kambodia
d = doobai

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And my question is how did you know that your call was picked up by Indiaaaaaaaaaan?
Those Taiwan, Indonesian etc call centre guys are so crapy, its all blamed on Indian in name of Asian...
I found it to be so stupid they cant even pronounce the name properly, well "Blame it on Rio ", if you remember Michale Caine ...
And you should not ask me why I know that much about Dell...
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Dells support centre is in India.
Not for much longer due to complaints...http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32248.html

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oops, and I wrote german.
Pal I dont know more how to put is simple. I think I should start like this, just the heck of it
A = Aamerica
b = baalgeria
c = kambodia
d = doobai

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I must admit to a quiet chuckle when I read yor posts though!!
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Originally Posted by ROBnCAZ
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I must admit to a quiet chuckle when I read yor posts though!!
"I am here to annoy you"

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That's a pity Bart, you do a terrible job of it!!

(Wendy, soz for hijacking your thread - I'm off now)!!

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Originally Posted by andrew63
Dells support centre is in India.
Not for much longer due to complaints...http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32248.html

Andrew
hmm now I wonder...!
They said they are moving the jobs from Banglore and moved to to North of Delhi (somewhere, but no in Delhi)
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Originally Posted by andrew63
Dells support centre is in India.
Not for much longer due to complaints...http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32248.html

Andrew
That doesn't come as a big surprise.

Thats the advantage here in Holland. Outsoucing of this sort of thing is a bit more difficult because theres not that many people in the world that speak Dutch !!
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That doesn't come as a big surprise.

Thats the advantage here in Holland. Outsoucing of this sort of thing is a bit more difficult because theres not that many people in the world that speak Dutch !!
Dont worry Dutch market is not so big, the day it grows like Japan, US, Europe then you will see people learning Dutch.
btw, Indians are learning Japanse as they feel the hugh market is in Japan then Europe.
Its SOS for European customers
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