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On 22/06/2015 01:43, walt wrote: |
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> On 06/21/2015 12:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I've used nothing bur Dell laptops for 10 years (currently on #5), and |
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>> I've yet to run into any hardware support issues. |
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> Did you replace them because they broke? You wanted the latest trendy |
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> color? What's the real story here? You know you want to tell us :) |
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> BTW, what happened to the old ones? |
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#1 belonged to SYbase where I worked at the time, and I moved on |
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#2 belonged to LSD where I worked at the time, and I moved on |
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#3 was mine, an M1540. Lovely machine but had one of those faulty nVidia |
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cards from 7 years ago where the chip separates from it's substrate. I |
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still have it, breaks my heart to throw it away :-) |
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#4 was an M4600, developed a weird fault that Dell had never heard of, |
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so they replaced it under warranty with |
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#5 is the current M4800, still going strong |
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The wife got an M4600 same time I did (we worked at the same place) and |
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she's since upgraded to a ThinkPad courtesy of the company scheme. I |
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have plans for that machine but she made me promise to tidy up my study |
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and do something with the hundreds of books lying around before I can |
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get my mitts on it :-((( |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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