This is the second time dell has sold me a lemon. First it was a home computer and the graphics card wouldnt work with the monitor I bought combined with Windows Vista. No biggie, I thought, Ill return this and get a laptop.
After I got the laptop, I immediately began having problems with it. Software was defective (it shipped with a buggy version of Outlook that needed to be reinstalled). There was a problem with the device manager such that if I "disabled" a device, the option to "enable" it disappeared. It took an hour on the phone with some guy in Inida to fix that one. Dell waived the fee so I stuck with them. Bad move.
Next I started having problems with my internet card. It wouldn't work properly with certain wireless routers. "Maybe it was the router?" I thought. Think again.
My hard drive began filling up with bad sectors. I'd get these warnings on my windows task bar that said "corrupt file xxx, run diskcheck utility." I woudl try to do just thta, but the disk check utility would give me an error message and abort itself. The backup restore function wont run either.
Then the fans stopped running. Then my microsoft and adobe software began to freeze up on me daily. The amount of time I was spending rebooting and reinstalling was adding up to an average of 30 minutes to an hour PER DAY!
But Im locked in now because Ive had the thing for months and I cant afford to eb without it for two weeks while they fix all these problems. Ill just live with it, I thought. No, nobody should ever have to live with a Dell.
Now my AIRcard doesnt work. It randomly shuts off and the operating system no longer recognizes the USB port it was plugged into, necessitating — you guessed it — another reboot. I literally reboot this Inspiron E1505 every few hours. Dell wont let me out of my contract. Im losing time and money because they make horribly defective computers. I will never buy anything from Dell again, and I cant wait to meet my nemesis because the first thing Im going to do is buy them a Dell and ruin their life.
Dude, you're screwed, you're gettin a Dell!
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