On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 17:06:11 Jc García wrote: > 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman <[email protected]>: > > I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.) > > > > But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other > > OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't know how well Dell's crap^W > > support stuff runs in a VM. > > The contrary experience here, USB has been the thing that got me to > use VirtualBox many times, I have put usb drivers, printers, 3g > modems, even adb trough the pass-trough feature of virtualbox, with no > problems, in fact for some years for printing purposes I had to use a > VM, and Virtualbox was the fastest to get working(click conect usb > printer, install the windows drivers, print). I'm suspecting you also > didn't run it with a very new computer, a server 2012 could run fine > for testing some stuff, with 1 core limit and 512M RAM over here, > using the virtualization capabilities of the processor. but I haven't > dealt with DELL hardware. > > BTW, to Alan, I have never had to call to support for any laptop, but > do they really have someone that could know more than you to help? I > would seriously suspect most cases you are just talking to a call > center agent whom clearly isn't doing a job that requires much > knowledge about computers, that may be just reading some general > 'reboot your pc' type instructions, and would likely suggest you to go > to a professional technician at the arise of the slightest seemingly > serious problem. But I might be wrong, and dell support could be > awesome(I hardly think so, I know a lot of people who give support at > call centers).
Dell support are *very* good at selling you extended warranty, which is not worth what you're paying for. Unless you are majorly unlucky - i.e. MoBo blows up. -- Regards, Mick
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