700m - First Impressions are Disappointing - Page 2

Relaxguy, you're not so relax it seems. Rather the 'yeahh' style. wow, a cow-boy... At least John Wayne wasn't injurious.

I personally think relaxguy is insecure with his 700m purchase and just wants to justify his purchase. In my opion "owned a 700m for a portion of time" it aint so hot. Id rather pay more money to get exactly what im looking for. Thinkpads all the way!

I have a puppy

Hmm. Most of you who are giving relaxguy a hard time for his comments are saying that the thread starter has the right to complain about whatever he wants. This is absolutely true. In that light, anyone else in this thread has every right to debate anything that the original thread poster stated. How can readers get a comprehensive idea if they read a good page of bashing a product, and nobody disagrees with the basher ? I don't think he was getting personal at all. He wrote out a very well thought out post, addressing the authors issues with the notebook and his reasoning for those issues one at a time. Who's says it's an arguement? It's a good, old fashioned debate. I'm all for that!

I have to back up the main point in the "PRO" side of this debate. The 700M is a budget laptop. Sure dell saved a few bucks on it where they could, if they hadn't, we'd be paying the cost of the VAIO for it. .

J.

^ I also think that is just childish and completely irrelevent.
Spellcheck anyone? Can you say grammar?
J.

Saying someone's argument is "stupid" always causes problems lol.

i have two kittens as well...cute little devils, should see them together with my puppy, just a whole lot of cuteness wrapped up into a big ass ball of fur.

wait! what were we talking about?

JulianDogg can you say get a life? I typed that in a hurry during work.

To start things off, I sent out no negative rep's period. I got quite a few myself for that last post...but then again I could care less.

Heh, bring it. I don't think I put you down, I was mearly adding on to what you already brought up.

I just touch typed this entire post on a 700m, I think the keyboard is sufficient. I'm sure my post has pretty poor grammar, but the spelling errors should be few and far between. Chances are if I spelled a word wrong, I didn't know how to spell it in the first place.

Yes ALOT less. I'm sure you, and 95% of the people on this board used a coupon to buy this laptop. An ibook for 999$ has 1ghz,256megs,30gig.cdrw/dvd, a 700m with ANY of the 750$ coupons (or the better ones) will at most cost 750$. Add tax and the 700m now costs >25% less than the nearest competitor. I'll keep my 250+$, thanks.
Dell is very clever, they of course try to lure in people with the HUGE coupon discounts. Dell is the number one computer supplier around, period, call their tactics what you want but no one markets better then they do. You compare two things where the price is not even close to the same, and then complain how the lower priced item is inferior to the other.

First, everyone in the buisness field wants to be successful, but then again who doesn't. Being a hardworker doesn't always get you to the top, and the US is one of the least productive economic powers in the world. My 6 month old son bangs on the keyboard, and by the time he's 1 I'll make sure he knows why SRAM is used over DRAM, and why non-volatile memory still needs time to mature before it can be substituted for the cheap and popular volatile type , big deal.

It requires very little intelligence to go to a university. All it really takes is a LITTLE bit of effort and some money. Let's talk averages. Guess what? Over 70% of students who go to a university major in...yup, buisness. That makes them average right there. 'B' students, once again average. So now you have average people getting average grades getting an average degree. Also, at most universities students in the buisness program have higher GPA's then say medical, or engineering students, but it's not because they are more intelligent, but because they have an easier curiculum. Even if they get a 4.0, they are still just average, and GPA or career success holds absolutely no relevance to intelligence. You are right about one thing though, tons of people are useless, and technically shouldn't be allowed to reproduce.

Diamonds do have intrinsic value, but only because there is a market for them. They are only worth money because people find them nice to look at, and they are used in some cutting and drilling areas. Most of the 'diamond tipped' drill bits and such that a normal consumer can buy are the usual marketing mumbo-jumbo. Larger operations use other materials, specifically ones that are harder then diamonds. SO I'll assume 90% of diamond's sold end up on a woman's finger, or around a rapper's neck.

Diamonds are rare, period. What I don't understand is you say that real diamonds are in high demand, but then you add that fake diamond's somehow make real diamonds easier to come by. Two different markets buddy. Yeah there are fake ones, but no one wants them. Buy your significant other a say, wedding ring with a fake diamond, and see how it makes he/she feel, and tell me when you get that divorce. Most diamonds are flawed, but they are sold for looks alone and the average person only inspects the diamond at the time of purchase anyways. From 5 feet away most diamonds look quite alike. By the way I have some magic fake apples that never go rotten, only 5 easy payments of 99.99 each. They look just like the real thing, I swear. If someone doesn't have the intelligence to shop around for 5 minutes (since there are 10,000,000 deal websites now) then dell deserves to get all their money. Dell banks on people being ignorant, and if people fall into their trap they have only themselves to blame. Dell's marketing is genius, but I don't think their products are good because of the name. I went with what was cheapest yet still fits my needs. It just so happened to be a 700m, if Sony want's to make a cheaper small notebook I'll jump ship in a heart beat. I have no alliance with any corporation, I have an alliance with my wallet. Critically think about that.

You say specifically in another post, "Why can't dell make a 13" with a good video card like sony?" Sony laptops do sell for almost double a similar dell would sell for. So you want dell to make a laptop that sony already makes. If the Sony is such a good weight/performance compromise then buy that. The only reason you haven't is because you are waiting for dell to make the same thing, but only cheaper.

To whoever said that I'm not very relaxed you better calm down. I just got sick of seeing people complain about the same thing so I had to flex my pimp hand.

I didn't DO anything except respond to you, here's a nice present for you.
Amen to that

I thought I would make a second post to take care of the let's jump on RelaxGuy bandwagon.

So do I.

John Wayne, was an actor, not a cowboy, and either am I. He grew up in California I believe and went to USC. I have no idea what your 'yeahh' style is, stop doing drugs.

Thanks for judging me based on one post. Personally, I am in no way insecure about the size of my...laptop. Try again.

Thanks guys, I had fun with this, but now I'm bored so I probably won't respond again.

Sure John Wayne was an actor but he's not specially famous about the barmaid or baby-sitter characters he played.
My only drug is, unfortunately, tobacco and some wine or beer from time to time. It will be hard to stop all that.
Anyway, I just tried to express I felt you came a bit injurious and rude, but nothing special against you. From here rightnow, just a peace pipe, if you want to try it...

Oh Hell Yeah!! Puff, Puff pass bro, I'll take a hit of that

I'm down with that, no hard feelings.

Yay you said 95% of you used a coupon, so I guess im in the 5% There were no coupons the time I ordered

Geeezzzz... It's just a laptop dude. You are fighting and arguing over something you bought and now you are not happy. So, the solution is simple. Return it, get what you want and move on. People just like to complain because life would be without meaning if they found nothing to complain about. Just like me complaining about a complainer. The argument that if people demand a better product they would put out a better one is nonsense. The purpose of business is to make money. If they do something that is perfect they won't make any money out of it because it won't break down, it won't make them richer and they would go out of business. So... you get what you paid for. Not happy? Get something else and leave the 700m for those who are happy with them.

Dell won't change anything to make it better. Cheaper and affordable yes. And still banking on service and warranties. That is their gold mine. Customer Care. It;s cheaper and it ties you over for 3 years or more. Notice how now they offer 90 day warranties with their systems. Remember the 5150's? Those were solid. Hot but solid builds. Then came 5160s? and that was a bad updgrade. How about the first batch of 6000i? Later they added dedicated graphics. So on and so forth. Try to find an 8600c, that was solid. 6000d, bad move. Nice but I will take 8600c anytime.

So smoke the peace pipe. Stop your whining and enjoy your lappie. Don't like it? Try another company. I bet you chose Dell for the affordability. Getting a lappie for less than a 1K ain't too shabby.