Mr O wrote:
Or from HP, or any other large OEM for that matter. They stick
it to you in the upgrades department. It is often cheaper to
take a bottom of the line POS Dell as is and upgrade what you
can aftermarket for less. Although, upgrading on bottom of the
line machines is very limited.
I won't do this anymore. I had a Dell that was a little
flakey. Suspecting the power supply I decided to upgrade
it. Bought a Sparkle. Connected it. Bang! The smoke escaped.
Turns out Dell customizes the power supply connector. The
standard one plugs into it with little trouble. But the
voltages are different.
So I replaced both the mother and the supply. Now I ran
into the fact that the front panel switch/LED cable used
a connector that I couldn't buy. I faked it with a different
size, but it was never right.
Eventually I replaced it all with a Lian case. So at this
point nothing of the Dell remains.
Except for incompatibility I liked the Dells. But for this
reason I won't buy them anymore.
The guy that repairs and upgrades all makes,
Mr O.
From now on its generic all the way.
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen. --- Sir Winston Churchill
--- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/6/06, T. Joseph CARTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
People keep saying Apple overcharges for its computers. And
yet, I keep
seeing Apple computers sold with standard configurations for
less than
similarly configured Dell boxes. Why is that?
Now, don't buy your RAM from Apple. Good grief.
Or from Dell for that matter.
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