I 2ND THAT! -----Original Message----- Gilles Chehade Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 4:17 PM
Mr. Majid Awad, I have recently been provided with a DELL laptop at work which runs Windows and OpenBSD. I have recently bought a VAIO laptop for personal use which runs OpenBSD. These two laptops have a point in common. ALL of the hardware is recognized and works ... except for the Intel wifi chipsets. About four days ago, at an airport, I had written code that I needed to synchronize with the current code base at work. This forced me to keep booting between Windows and my working operating system so that I could actually work and make the changes visible for the people at my company by ... using the network. You can't imagine how irritable one can get when spending time waiting for a couple systems to boot about twenty times within a few hours. This has wasted both me and my company a lot of time and money. And worst of all, this is how we are treated for trusting your company and SPENDING MONEY on its hardware. I just got back from my business trip and first thing I'll do tomorrow is discuss with the decision takers at work so that they contact dell and tell them the Intel based hardware is not working and we need it replaced (oh don't worry that's just about a hundred laptops, it won't affect your sales that much). And for my personal use, this is the last time I buy a laptop or desktop with Intel hardware in it, I have wasted enough time with your integrated graphic chipsets and your integrated wifi chipsets, I can't even recall how many times I got angry at some of your hardware not being working properly (or at all) because you refuse to cooperate with ... your customers. I'd rather spend my money on something that works and keep a smile on my face while working. I am angry and you lost a customer.
