On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Ohlemacher <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I looked at Dell and bought a Precision M6500 I7. Dell gives us pretty > good corp discounts. It is currently running LMDE(xfce). It has been > great. We have several, others running Windoze. One coworker has had > nothing but trouble. Dell shipped bad memory in many machines and it took > months for Dell to identify and fix. That was months of blue screens for > him. You would think Dell would keep track of what brand parts were in what > machines. It was some Israeli brand no one ever heard of. Many complained > on the forums. I had the good memory. Two weeks ago his drive died. > Just clicked when turned on. Now his 'windows restored' OS is leaking > memory and crashes daily. Takes about 6 hrs to leak 3.3 GB before > crashing. I have to quietly laugh at the last part. > > We've had some people with no issues with the M6500 and some with nothing but trouble (a lot of overheating issues) so I steer clear of them and their updated cousin the M6600. The M4x00 series (M4500 and M4600) have been much more well behaved. I have years of positive experience with Dell Latitudes (the D series for a long time, and recent years the E series, primarily the E6510 and E6520). We run Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux on them. Most of my end users use Ubuntu or Fedora. I've never had a particularly good experience with an Inspiron. They build quality and components quality does not seem to be terribly great. -Shawn
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