Re: Dell laptops rocks!


"Sandman" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <Lq4jf.19462$BZ5.17297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "John Slade" <hitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I've been at home for about a week since my kids have been sick and
>>> home. When I got back to work, my Dell laptop acted funny.
>>>
>>> It's been sleeping for a week, but with the power plugged in. I
>>> opened the lid and waited (well, not really - I worked on my Mac) for
>>> it to wake - it took something around a minute.
>>>
>>> When it eventually woke, all USB ports were dead so I had to use the
>>> flimsy trackpad on it (when will PC laptops have as good trackpads as
>>> Macs?) to try to use it. Networking (WiFI) was slow and was barely
>>> working and it acted funny overall. I decided to reboot it (after all
>>> - it had an "uptime" of over a week - it was due for a reboot).
>>>
>>> It hung at "Windows is preparing to shut down". It couldn't even shut
>>> down! I had to force quit it and reboot it and now it works as bad as
>>> it usually does, but not as bad as before the reboot :-D
>>>
>>> This laptop rocks! :)
>>
>> I just set up a Dell laptop for a relative. It included wireless
>> networking, DSL and a printer. It works well. Maybe you should look at
>> who's running the machine.
>
> So basically, Dell + Windows is so fragile that I can mess it up just by
> surfing the web to pages I've made myself (i.e. virus free ones)?
>
> No wonder I am a Mac user!

Stupid people can do a lot of damage to something that others have no
problem with. BTW, what the hell do you need a PC laptop for? I thought Macs
handled all your needs.

John


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