I liked the fact that they sent a batch of the bad computers to their own lawyers and refused to make good on the faulty equipment. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a howitzer.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Stewart Marshall < [email protected]> wrote: > It also mentioned that Dell was not the only company hit by these bad > capacitors, but also HP and Apple. > > Seems Dell made the mistake of trying to cover it up. > > Remember it is not the 2 bit problem that sinks you but the 4 star cover > up. (rephrasing words spoken about Nixon) > > Stewart > > > > > At 09:53 AM 6/30/2010, you wrote: > >> Capacitor leaks are serious business. When a capacitor blows out, not >> only does the device in question die an instant death, it might even >> catch fire. So when the New York Times reports on freshly unsealed >> documents from a lawsuit alleging that Dell, over the course of two >> years, sold almost 12 million Optiplex machines with leaky capacitors >> to companies large and small, you know there's pain ahead for Dell >> whether the company wins the suit or not. >> >> >> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/06/suit-alleges-that-dell-shipped-12-million-faulty-computers.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) *************************************** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO ** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***************************************
