General Chat / More bitching about dell

Well I found a tool called handy recovery for 30...oh ya this thing kicks...

I had a dell for 3 years.

Went through 2 hard drives, and well over 5 re-installations of windows and drive formats.

Finally tossed it and picked up a tight ass e-machines tower for $200 and I haven't had one problem in the year that I've had it.

Edited by ECC, 12 August 2006 - 03:54 PM.

http://news.yahoo.co...ttery_recall_10


Woohoo go Dell!!!

sigh* Dell didn't make the batteries, Sony did.

Seems heating up the rest of the notebook would be more of an issue for the lifetime of the computer as a whole than the minute possibility of a fire.

But ty they purchased them...

Looks like my battery is clear by one number.

Which is good because I probably wouldn't get a replacement, thinking it'd be too much hassle and I'd end up getting my legs blown off or something.

But ty they purchased them...

True, but how are they supposed to know they are dangerous? btw they're recalling 4.1M 'potentially' dangerous batteries. There's only a very small change it happens.
And laspirateur that would be an issue, but it's related to how much hotter it becomes. Every piece of hardware gets a lower life cycle when you increase the temperature, but usually even that would exceed the expected life time (10 years or so I guess) and after that you usually have a new computer. Proper cooling is a must for videocards and processors though. Some vidcard can even handle 100 degrees, but that of course isn't acceptable because of the strongly decreased lifetime. A lot of vidcards can reach 70 degrees as a typical temperature though (most of the time in full load... if that's in idle than you're screwed). Temperature is a difficult issue though these days in laptops and mid-to-high systems.

https://dellbatteryp...om/Default.aspx

Website for recalls..