[Oz-teachers] Anyone got / getting a Dell Vostro?

[Greig Tardiani]

Don't Buy A Dell. Once sold to you service is virtually non-existent.
Quality of notebooks are not what they should be. Dell are very aggressive
in their marketing and make their product very attractive and that iis why
you are looking at them. Don't get sucked in.

Also, don't buy a HP/Compaq. Have had many of these, in fact heaps. They are
the most unreliable notebooks I have ever used. Have always had failures
with NIC, Motherboards, HDD, FDD, Optical drives, chassis etc etc. The last
3 I had in my department all spent at least 5 tips in for repairs. My
personal laptop finished up with only the RAM and the base chassis as
original, EVERYTHING else was replaced in 2 years of a 3 year warranty. The
other 2 similar. All previous Compaq notebooks (approx 30) have had numerous
issues in their short lives.

Don't buy an ASUS. My programmer has just spent almost $4000 on a top of the
range model and would never buy another. Slow, unstable, etc etc.

BUY AN IBM Thinkpad. We have around 40 Thinkpads that are from 0 to 5 years
old. Have had only one sent in for repairs (mine, which had a crack in the
casing which I would normally not have even worried about but just wanted to
test the warranty and they replaced the case.) I have dropped mine off a
desk. Just picked it up and kept working, didn't miss a beat. One of my
staff is using a 5 year old, out of warranty, Thinkpad that has a chunk out
of the front casing, looks like he took a bite out of it, and it is still
chugging along (somehow).
They are the ugliest notebook on the market, but ask yourself one question.
Why is the Thinkpad the notebook of choice by large corporations that have a
large mobile workforce. 
They are the best and have proved themselves the best notebook on the
market. Even after the Lenovo take over they are still built in the same
factories, by the same people and are still designed by the same people. The
Thinkpad is and always will be the Thinkpad. The ugliest but best notebool
on the market.
Don't consider anything else.

Yours Sincerly
 
Greig Tardiani
 

-----Original Message-----
From: oz-teachers-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
[mailto:oz-teachers-bounces at rite.ed.qut.edu.au] On Behalf Of Michael
Cridland
Sent: Sunday, 26 August 2007 11:27 AM
To: oz-teachers at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
Subject: [Oz-teachers] Anyone got / getting a Dell Vostro?

Hi all,

I'm finally planning to upgrade my PC at home with a Dell Vostro 
notebook as a desktop replacement.

I thought I'd see if any other Oz-Teachers have gone / are going down 
the Dell Vostro road - built tough, great specs, great value, great 
warranty (if I drop it, or spill my coffee on it, etc., or it gets 
stolen any time over the next 3 years, Dell will replace it would you 
believe?!),  and you get a 10% discount if you're with RACQ/V etc.

This will be my first laptop, so I'm very excited! :)

Cheers,
Michael


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