[Gllug] Seeking some laptop advice

[Avi Greenbury]

Juergen Schinker wrote:
> Dell is crap because:
> 
>  - propriatary Interface to external CD/DVD Rom

While I think that socket might still be there on some (it's not on my 
year-ish old one, but it is on my boss's year-and-a-fair-bit-old one) it 
does double up as a normal USB socket, and the laptop does work with USB 
CD-ROM drives, so it's a bit of a non-issue really.

>  - propriatary Interface from mains to Power Supply

No moreso than any other laptop, unless I'm missing something? Sure, the 
mains lead into the transformer is proprietary, but it's also not 
designed to be taken apart and has one of the better cable-storage 
systems I've seen. In fact, the chargers are one of the things I quite 
like about the Dells.

>  - Quality of Case to bad (Plastik)

The quality of laptop cases in general is pretty poor in my opinion. But 
my treatment of laptops is _very_ poor in the opinion of most other people.

>  - Support for private Customer exeptionally bad

This used to be very true, and is still the opinion I hold of Dell, but 
I've heard an awful lot to counter this recently. Lots and lots of 
people very happy with Dell's private customer support. Like I say, I've 
not used it myself in a long time, but I'm seeing reason to at the very 
least hold that opinion with less confidence.

>  - not enough USB-Interfaces

How many should there be?

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