So I Bought a Dell... (and stoll this topic name)

[Necromas]

I just spent $1300 and some cents on a Dell Insprion 1520 loaded to the teeth with...

-Midnight Blue Armor
-15.4" Anti-Glare Widescreen
-Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800Mhz, 4MB Cache Processor
-256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Video Card
-2GB, DDR2, 667MHz RAM
-160GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
-Windows Vista Home Premium
-Other stuff nobody cares about like the service plan

From what I can tell, it should make for an awesome cost efficient gaming machine and cover my bases for a sweet college laptop. People are always whining about Dell, but for other brands I'd be paying hundreds more after tax and shipping and everything for laptops that don't quite match up to it's performance. It seems most of the complaints about Dell are about their customer support and pricing, but I'm taking care of this baby so customer support shouldn't be an issue and obviously the price issue is already taken care of. No reviews about this laptop list any problems with it except for an occasional complaint that the latch should be stronger, and it seems well built and solid, which also goes against Dells reputation. So am I a sheep for getting a piece of crap Dell, or a genius for getting such a deal on a high performance laptop with rave reviews?

Also, what are your opinions on what kind of games this baby can handle?

P.S. Oh crap, I just saw the typo in the thread title.

[Board of Command]

Awesome deal. I don't think you can find anything better for $1300.

[SK]

Shitty processor. Shitty RAM.

[Necromas]

Shitty post.
Warned.

Shitty processor. Shitty RAM.

Shitty troll.

[SK]

Shitty troll.

Someone is mad they didn't get 800+ RAM.

[Board of Command]

Someone is mad they didn't get 800+ RAM.

What are you talking about? DDR2-667 is just fine for that CPU. There's absolutely no reason to pay a huge premium for DDR2-800 laptop memory.

[Assertn]

Shitty troll.

Well....you did ask for peoples' opinions on your purchase.....

[Animeniax]

He only wants positive opinions to stroke his pride, like anyone would who just dropped (relatively) a lot of money on a purchase.

It's a pretty good laptop for the price, except for the fact it's a Dell, but maybe their Inspiron line is better than their Latitudes.

[?igma]

no SK, he's mad because you fail to explain why,how and what his options would have been.


edit : oooooooor I don't read and should pluck my eyes out, it's a laptop.


Cant say much about laptops, they're always overpriced imho.

No wait! I can say something about laptops. Look, laptops and games..it's like saying Xbox and free internet. You can do it, but to gain all benefits , you'll have to pay. Same with Laptops. You can game on them, but to enjoy it, you'll need a proper PC. It's a real hype laptops and games, but to me, you're best off buying a cheap laptopt with alot of HDD space and programs such as photoshop, visual studio, etc. So you can use them for studies. Anything past that, is a waste of money yes.

[?igma]

Of course he was, there's a clear line between trolling and giving an opinion.

The first is, as you so gently put it, not making sense, but still trying to hurt someones feelings, the second is an argumentation based opinion.

Oh now I get it, you thought I was directing it to you, animeniax. I meant that it's easy for someone to just jump in a thread call everyone assholes and move out again. That's trolling.

[mage]

We have an entire section on the forums for flaming others now. Stop doing it here.
Warned

dell makes good laptops, that's about it.

[Board of Command]

Ironic, because the Latitude line is the business class and are supposed to be much better than the Inspirons. I have an Inspiron 640m and a classmate has a Latitude D620 (I think). The difference in build quality is huge.

[Animeniax]

Yeah, but unfortunately that's how Dell operates and they're still one of the top PC vendors because people are suckers. I suppose they figure a business user will take better care of their company equipment, so they use cheap panels and substandard parts to manufacture the Latitudes, then take care of it on the back-end by replacing parts under warranty. At work I had so many latitudes where it was basically a new machine because absolutely everything had been replaced under warranty. Plus Dell had that issue with the USB ports not providing enough juice to power USB-bus-powered equipment. That might have been a problem on the Inspirons too though.

[Assertn]

Well, actually Dell operates on a very low-overhead between the factories to the end consumer. I forget the details, but its a business model that allows them to cut a lot of typical manufacturing expenses.

This is what allows them to sell their products at practically the same price as if you built one from scratch.

[?igma]

Dell has been making immense losses over the last 2 years. What started out as a booming bussiness, a market unexplored and swiftly conquered, they reached their top about 2 or 3 years ago. The market didn't expand anymore, people are said to have become smarter ( although I doubt it ), but especially the experience people have with Dell is one of the main factors their bussiness is no longer top of the line.

As I've said a couple of times, I've seen some early Dell PC's on the inside. Actually having some of the hardware burned into the case was one of the normal things you'd come across. Also the so called help desk is one of their budget cutting factors.

Their helpdesk is effectively counter-acting the production efficiency Dell has. As Ass said, they don't sell in stores, so they remove that part from the chain and add it to the budget. They also only manufactor the PC when the order is made, not long before. (on demand)

Over the past years Dell had to expand its helpdesk (and thus employees) and salery is the single largest cost in any company ( except goldfarmers, or childlabor ), because the issues people had were not addressed quick enough. Not to mention, and people that sent their dell pc back to dell know this, they were severely undermanned and it could take several weeks up to monthsb efore the PC would be returned. Which didn't bring them much goodwill.

I believe Dells objective is to have a leading position on the market by a fair percentage, because of their "cheaper" chain, they should be able to produce far more and be attractive to alot of companies, but since 2007 it's placed second, HP being first. And HP is still one of the old system.

Personally I'd say the horrible quality of the hardware inside the Dell PC must've costed them some customers as well, but who knows.