[BNM] Laptop advice needed

[Richard Monk]

I found their customer services pretty good. Email convo's do tend to take
forever to get back though, but over the phone they are usually happy to
call you back to solve the problem.

However, I have a latitude and two inspirons which are a bit shoddy overall,
I mean they're good PCs, but the build quality is just bad, bits break all
the time under barely any stress - I'm very careful.

I have friends with the same models who have breaks in the exact same
places - indicating to me that there are some build quality issues, rather
than just my manhandling. This seems to occur especially around the PCMCIA
slots, the fans, and the casing toward the back of the laptops.

Vaio's are OK but whenever I've seen them they appear to have HUGE
transformer boxes about half the size of the damn laptop. What a way to kill
what is otherwise a sleek and well designed product.

Alienware is overpriced really. They look OK if you're a 15 year old LAN
gamer or something, but otherwise its just silly.

Best Regards,
Richard.

InspireBox
www.inspirebox.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: matt zb [mailto:bnm at zenbullets.com]
> Sent: 02 May 2006 12:11
> To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Laptop advice needed
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>
> Beware the Dell. Trying to deal with their 'customer services' is like
> exchanging emails with the Tower of Babel.
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> > Antony :
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> > -1
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> > I've never heard of this before, Dell make some of the most
> reliable laptops
> > I've ever used. Also they have a sensible spare parts scheme,
> whereby they
> > don't change the fitting every model.
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