Re: My $700 Dell laptop saves the day

Steve de Mena wrote:
Justin wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Justin wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Justin wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Justin wrote:
Steve de Mena wrote:
Jesus wrote:
On Jul 22, 10:59 pm, Tommy Troll <tom_e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Friend had a camera with some photos he wanted to show on his
little
13" toy Mac notebook. Only problem was that he forgot his
camera's
USB cable. So, I grabbed his memory card, put in my Dell's card
slot,
copied the pictures over, and ran the slide show for him.

BTW, the $700 Dell has a 2" larger screen, more RAM and a larger
hard
drive that the other guy's feature-starved $1,300 Macbook.

LOL all the way to the bank.
Do cheap Dell laptops still feel like flimsy pieces of plastic
that
might snap or have they fixed that? After all, I don't want my
$700
Dell card reader to break in half.
You get a four year warranty and don't worry about things like
that.

I have had Dells for work for years now and traveled the world,
and
nothing snapped.

Steve
Warranty doesn't do you much good when your machine stops
working the
day before a presentation.
Have fun getting next day warranty parts replacement.
Why would we have had problems with that (getting next day warranty
replacements)?

At our large sites we had vendors (and parts) *onsite* who did the
work
the same day (and billed back Dell for the warranty work). What
sized
"business" do you work for?

Steve
So you don't even have any hands on experience at all? You just take
reports and have the vendor take care of it.
You're right, that's not help desk, that's a help desk dispatcher.

First company I worked for was about 50 people. Then I moved on to
larger companies, from 200 to 500. The place I work at now is about
150.
The last bad hard drive I dealt with was with Dell. in order to
get a
new one they actually wanted me to format the drive and report the
bad
sectors. His little rule book said if the customer didn't try to
reformat - assume the drive is good. By the time I did get a "next
day"
warranty replacement, it was after hours so next day was actually two
days.
Listen, idiot. I imagine I have way more "hands-on" experience than
you, going back to the early 90s and small mom and pop computer
stores.
But *I* moved up and on. I no longer have to deal with failed hard
drives any more. I guess you are proud of not advancing?

Steve

I was in middle school in the early 90's. I have a Masters degree in
computer science. When I'm not working/at the beach/out with these
thigns called friends I'm back at the college clustering BSD machines
together. We certainly don't use Windows. But that is a completely
different ballgame than the stuff discussed in this NG.
So yeah, considering how old (young?) I am; I easily outpaced you.
All your competition has to do is wait for you to have a stroke.

I guess you're proud of liver spots?
I don't use much Windows at my current job either, designing and
implementing multi-million dollar SAN implementations for a large
company that has 6,000 in their IT department, and making over 6
figures.

Steve

Oh please... Just because you're getting paid doesn't mean you know
what you're doing.
There are plenty of clueless idiots running various companies who don't
know a balance sheet from a stiff turd. You're the prime example.

Don't even try to brag about how much you make because I know you're
full of shit. There's an old expression "Those who can, do. Those who
can't brag."

I think if you go back the last couple of years and read my posts you
might see a lot of things, but not lying.

If I didn't know what I was doing I wouldn't be working on systems
holding medical data that could literally affect lives if I caused
problems.

Steve

I work at Area 51.
.

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