OT:Dell computers

[John Esak]

 Have to agree, the HP brand is head and shoulders above the rest. The rack
mountable jobs like the G4 series are beyond belief as workhorses.

Remember I was ranting about Dale Egan buying a beautiful server for $700.
Well It works perfectly. He bgrought it to my house... Don't know how the
hell he carried the ting... It is SO heavy... Anyway, he just bought 5 more!
At $200 each. Same box and stuff, but no hard drives. This is still an
amazing deal, since hard drives for this box are in the $30 to $40 range!
Sheesh, the box and 6 drives still put you at $380!!!!!!!  I feell like
buying some just to store in my shed for when the world finishes blowing up.
Another 6 months of Obama and that's a done deal obviously.  People will be
looking for machines that need no servicing for years and years.    Okay,
didn't mean to drift with the political aspersion... I'ts hard to keep the
world and what's happening out of immediate consciousness.  Besides which, I
just finished The Road To Serfdom.  Good God, and that was written maybe 60
years ago?  I don't know about most of you, but I'm feeling pretty surfy
myeself these days. :-)  Actually, when I was a kid, I was pretty surfy, and
*that* was okay!

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Chris Rendall
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:44 PM
> To: filePro (filepro-list at lists.celestial.com)
> Subject: RE: OT:Dell computers
> 
> I've had many GX270 motherboards that I had to replace 
> because of the leaky capacitors.  When it was time to replace 
> the computers I went with HP.  Much higher quality computer...
> ________________________________________
> From: Richard Kreiss [rkreiss at verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:01 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: OT:Dell computers
> 
> Headline: Civil Lawsuit over faulty computers highlights the 
> decline in
> Dell's Reputation.
> 
> 
> 
> For those who didn't see the article in the NY Times, it 
> appears that from
> 2003 - 2005 Dell shipped approximately 11.8 million faulty computers
> (Opti-plex).
> 
> 
> 
> The problem was faulty capacitors which would leak causing 
> the motherboard
> to crack and fail.
> 
> 
> 
> Dell support told one university in Austin Texas that the 
> problem was that
> the math problems they were running were taxing computers 
> causing them to
> break down.  Dell employees were told to say anything but the 
> truth about
> the problem.
> 
> 
> 
> It appears that HP and some other manufacturers had similar 
> problems early
> in 2003 but corrected the problem.  Dell on the other hand 
> kept getting
> supplies from the same supplier.
> 
> 
> 
> The "funny" thing is that the Law Office defending then 
> against the civil
> lawsuit, had the bad computers from Dell.
> 
> 
> 
> Reading this article is a leason in how not to run a company.
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> 
> GCC Consulting
> 
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