Dell was waste of dollars
Owned my first Dell laptop recently (18 months old)- the worst computer i've ever owned (since 1980), and btw not cheap compared with decent Toshibas. Win Xp, all updates, latest MS office, a virus-crash-monster (terrible support- guess mimiking MS- xbox support a joke (threw it away!)). 4 times daily regular crashes and lost work very conservatively costing 200 days x 4 x 30 mins (each cdn$20 fee)==> lost income per year= cdn$16,000. (Best consulting rate nearer $240k lost annually for crashes).
Yet, worked on the largest global virtual reality oil-gas-maintenance simulation using lotsa Dell and cool toys a few years back... guess they've lost their grasp on quality.
Ad..schmads- try and opt out of Dell junk mail and their phones and web don't work!!! These guys are going the way of Wordstar and Lotus- once worthy, but now have lost their way.
Today (at work)- created Word doc on old Dell, saved on disk, to new Dell, tried to open and failed; then to (guess) 4 year old Apple mac G3- opened straight-away and able to print. Warm-fuzzies for Apple...
Sept 04- my first Apple since '82 (iMac G5)- totally delighted, no crashes (fingers crossed) 120 days, doing usual work. Never mind the dollars, i *like* computers again...
So delighted, buying more Apple stuff, and (sadly/goodly) encouraging many hundreds annual university students to consider Apple as a cost-effective, user-focussed, creativity-leveraging, stable and secure, business tool rather than waste dollars on the MS myth. For crikey's sake- even different versions of Word don't reliably talk to each other (guess why Grady Booch, the OO guru switched to Apple despite being on IBM payroll)...
Real shame the UK subs use MS (guess a few nuke warheads will land accidentilly) [...my aeropsace engineering background would never allow such folley...]
Owned my first Dell laptop recently (18 months old)- the worst computer i've ever owned (since 1980), and btw not cheap compared with decent Toshibas. Win Xp, all updates, latest MS office, a virus-crash-monster (terrible support- guess mimiking MS- xbox support a joke (threw it away!)). 4 times daily regular crashes and lost work very conservatively costing 200 days x 4 x 30 mins (each cdn$20 fee)==> lost income per year= cdn$16,000. (Best consulting rate nearer $240k lost annually for crashes).
Yet, worked on the largest global virtual reality oil-gas-maintenance simulation using lotsa Dell and cool toys a few years back... guess they've lost their grasp on quality.
Ad..schmads- try and opt out of Dell junk mail and their phones and web don't work!!! These guys are going the way of Wordstar and Lotus- once worthy, but now have lost their way.
Today (at work)- created Word doc on old Dell, saved on disk, to new Dell, tried to open and failed; then to (guess) 4 year old Apple mac G3- opened straight-away and able to print. Warm-fuzzies for Apple...
Sept 04- my first Apple since '82 (iMac G5)- totally delighted, no crashes (fingers crossed) 120 days, doing usual work. Never mind the dollars, i *like* computers again...
So delighted, buying more Apple stuff, and (sadly/goodly) encouraging many hundreds annual university students to consider Apple as a cost-effective, user-focussed, creativity-leveraging, stable and secure, business tool rather than waste dollars on the MS myth. For crikey's sake- even different versions of Word don't reliably talk to each other (guess why Grady Booch, the OO guru switched to Apple despite being on IBM payroll)...
Real shame the UK subs use MS (guess a few nuke warheads will land accidentilly) [...my aeropsace engineering background would never allow such folley...]
