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Poll Results: How Reliable is Your Dell So Far? 5 Very Good To 1 Worst

 
  • 67% (140)
    5
  • 20% (42)
    4
  • 6% (14)
    3
  • 1% (4)
    2
  • 3% (8)
    1
208 Total Votes  
post #21 of 67
9/26/05 at 2:14pm
I gave my XPS Gen 1 a five. No problems but my own fiddling. The unit is rock-solid.
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post #22 of 67
9/26/05 at 2:19pm
I9200 bought 11-04 no major problems.
Still use it as my DTR everyday.
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post #23 of 67
9/26/05 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by MysticGolem
THis is for eveyone, by the people for the people, of course i will use this for myself

Its just nice to have a bunch of stats under one roof.. if u know what i mean.

At the end of each month or so i will post all of the info in the General forums for all to see, i have a poll in EACH section for each company.

Thanks,

MysticGolem
Thanks for the explanation. I completed the poll in the IBM forum as well. Hope it helps.
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post #24 of 67
9/26/05 at 9:10pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by MysticGolem
THis is for eveyone, by the people for the people, of course i will use this for myself

Its just nice to have a bunch of stats under one roof.. if u know what i mean.

At the end of each month or so i will post all of the info in the General forums for all to see, i have a poll in EACH section for each company.

Thanks,

MysticGolem
Oh boy this could get ugly..
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post #25 of 67
9/26/05 at 9:41pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cutters

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Originally Posted by thecommish16
6th Dell in 4 years...awesome
geez thats alot of dells in only five years.
I think he meant that sarcastically. I.E., that ain't good.
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post #26 of 67
9/26/05 at 9:49pm
I had a few minor issues with the screen not coming on when resuming from standby, but I must have done something to it because those problems vanished shortly afterwards. It's been rock solid for me since, though the screen seems a tad looser than I would like on the hinge. I give it 4/5.
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post #27 of 67
9/26/05 at 10:52pm
2 Years and my 8600 is still running like a dream, no issues whatsoever...5/5

SPECS 8600 1.7
128Nvidia 5650 FxGo
768Mb 333DDR
15.4 WSXGA+
4XDVDR+RW
60Gig Hd
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post #28 of 67
10/17/05 at 4:54am
I had one issue that occurred on my 9300 when I ran windows update and it took ten minutes (I timed it!) to shut down and then almost 8 to reboot. I ran sys restore and all was well.

My problems have all been with Dell Financial and their "crack" people. Between the English problems, they don't have a clue what to do when you get off their little scripts they have. I called to get an invoice when I didn't get one, and it turned into a missing laptop callback! I went around the world on the phone, when I called the first time. India, Panama, back to India, to Texas, to (I think from the accent) The Phillipines, back to India, and finally back to Tx, where I thought it was all settled. Then, the next day, some guy calls, from India, and says "We have investigated and our records show that your laptop was delivered on June the third, and that someone claiming to be you signed for it!" I snorted and nearly choked on my iced tea. I don't know where they came up with the missing laptop nonsense.

They called again from Dell Financial asking if my laptop had been found. Jeez.

And I thought Acer support was goofy.
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post #29 of 67
10/17/05 at 6:29am
I had an inspiron 6000. only had it for about two weeks.

i used it very minimally for about 4 days and went to go use it..turned it on and i had that blue error screen.

had to factory reset it.

didnt expect that on a brand new notebook.

i no longer have this computer. sold it 2 weeks after i got it.


still, i would consider purchasing another dell.
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post #30 of 67
10/17/05 at 9:08am
5/5

Had my 9300 for 3 months now and I couldn't imagine a day without it. Runs like a freakin' stallion in every game I've thrown at it so far on high settings including Doom 3, BF2, and CS:S. Haven't had a single problem with the computer itself yet.

I LOVE THIS THING!
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post #31 of 67
10/17/05 at 11:15am
Bad panel on one but that was replaced the next day so I'm happy.
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post #32 of 67
10/17/05 at 8:08pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordan1
It has never crashed on me or did anything random so far (5 months) so I gave my 9300 a 5/5 for being reliable.
laptops dont crash, windows crashes. if you have random problems with the computer, that has nothing to do with the hardware. that is just because windows sucks. an unreliable laptop is one that physically breaks and stops working
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post #33 of 67
10/17/05 at 10:50pm
Apparently, Dell's are pretty reliable.
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post #34 of 67
10/18/05 at 2:21pm
I've had my i9300 for about a month now and its been flawless.
This is my second dell and I've yet to have a problem with them that wasn't related to me doing so that I shouldn't have
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post #35 of 67
10/19/05 at 6:29pm
I had cpu/dissipator and vga card changed within guarranty (and within 24 hours after calling for assistance, Dell is *really* reliable in Italy), apart from that my 8600 always ran flawlessy. Never an overheating nor stability or crashing problem. I'm very pleased after 10 months
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post #36 of 67
10/19/05 at 6:31pm
Absolutely no hardware issues with my i9200. Couldn't be happier.
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post #37 of 67
10/20/05 at 5:53pm
I answered 1 and you can see for yourself here.

http://img464.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ntitled3nc.jpg

Just got the thing in May. And there is one that isnt on there. Doesnt list what the prolbem was, but if you want to know, let me know.
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post #38 of 67
10/21/05 at 1:58pm
Still giving me nothing but trouble. Second Hard Drive failure, sent it in once, received it still broken. Horrible so far...
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post #39 of 67
10/21/05 at 5:49pm
Ya. If anyone looked at the pic I posted above, I've had nothing but trouble. It's pretty much a lemon. Keyboard failures, hard drive, cd drives, monitors, palmrest, monitor encasement, everything but the motherboard. And even that almost had to be replaced.
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post #40 of 67
10/31/05 at 5:39am
I am going for my fifth and sixth Dells soon. I've always purchased higher lines like Latitude and Precision.

I briefly owned a Latitude CP then my really first Dell was a C610. It worked flawlessly except for the network connection that went bad, but seems to be a design flaw as many people reports of it. Then a D600 wich worked flawlessly for about 6 months. I've got annother D600 that I know is working perfectly because I sold it to a friend of mine. Then I got my first and second M60 and they work flawlessly too, except that one of them started failing due to bad memory, wich was later fixed easily by replacing the DIMM.

I have also an Inspiron 8600 wich is working flawlessly too. I have to mention that I always purchase second hand machines.

Dell is a trusty brand. The machines feel cheap about the build construction sometimes, but they almost never fail. IBM still keeps the higher reliability rate in my list.
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