I HATE HATE HATE...DELL !!!!

syra · 28th October 2004, 03:42 PM

I order sm 3 months ago...2.5 months ago I cancel the order, 2 months ago they ship it and charge me

... Today I still don't have my money you F*CKING lame ass company!!!!!!!!

I've called too many times and all I hear is apologies...take you apologies and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR *SS YOU B*ST*RDS!!!!!!!!!

Jose Mrochek · 28th October 2004, 05:11 PM

I have a Dell, can't wait to sell it get a mac. PC's suck.

LTA · 28th October 2004, 07:08 PM

Typical dell owners :( So full of violence and hate. Sure it was cheap, but you have to deal with dell. lol.

At least you didn't want yours, instead of having it for 3 weeks and it breaking down, then having a technician in-house 4-5 days trying to get a cheap computer to work again. And then there was the old job that decided to try and upgrade expendable dells. They are dumpster fodder.

There is inexpensive, and then there is cheap.

djui5 · 28th October 2004, 07:14 PM

I have a Dell and it's great.....I love it.

It was given to me also............

studjo · 29th October 2004, 12:13 AM

shit and I thought you hate Lindell

Jo

orange · 29th October 2004, 10:29 AM

At work I have about 200 dell dual xeon workstations and 150 dell dual xeon rack servers. All working 24/7 they have been fantastic - hardly any failures at all in the last year (maybe 2 graphics cards and 1 or two hard drives).

better than most of the other kit I have here.

si

max cooper · 30th October 2004, 10:07 AM

Here's a really funny article about Dell:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north159.html

My favorite part is the link to a utility that works in Win 95, 98 and ME. With it, you can change the color of the Blue Screen of Death to green, purple or black.

My last PC was a Dell. I kept it around after switching to Macs so I could run (then) Sonic Foundry applications. When it finally died, I took it into the alley and beat it to pieces with a tire iron. It crashed constantly, pretty much right out of the box, several times a day. Dell's support was basically nonexistent. F U Michael Dell.

Lostintheocean0 · 20th November 2004, 02:43 AM

Anyone with any REAL computer knowledge knows to buy a MAC...

sluttygearhere · 14th October 2007, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LTA

There is inexpensive, and then there is cheap.

And then there is Dell

Vandergraf · 14th October 2007, 04:49 PM

I've had three Dells. The Inspiron laptop had issues about 1 month before the warranty was going to die. They sent out the tech. Twice in one week. The second time he came, he told me that he couldn't figure out why it randomly re-booted. So he replaced every part except the TFT monitor. That was four years ago and it still works great.

All in all I can't complain too much about any of my Dell purchases, but my favorite PC in the house is my wife's new MACbook. That will be my next one!

PoorGlory · 14th October 2007, 04:55 PM

PCUSA.com has built two computers for me over the past 6 years and both have been stellar.

The Compaq and Gateway computers I used to have sucked ass (of course, this was in the 90s). I did buy a Dell laptop about 4 years ago, and had to have it repaired (under warranty). It's been just ok since then... no big crashes or anything.

Forget the big players. Build it custom yourself, or have a company like PCUSA build it.

darkman2 · 14th October 2007, 05:07 PM

i got kicked in the a... with dells.

i use p/t le . went with a sweetwater dual core..

so far so good...

pilahaka · 14th October 2007, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lostintheocean0

Anyone with any REAL computer knowledge knows to buy a MAC...

Right on. Because the hardware is so completely different than those dreaded PCs.

lowfreq33 · 14th October 2007, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilahaka

Right on. Because the hardware is so completely different than those dreaded PCs.

How about better quality control?

muziekschuur · 14th October 2007, 06:22 PM

I have a new Inspiron 1720 here with two harddisks and it is an amazing experience. The second harddrive does 52mb/s write. It will be amazing to record/mix with.

Muziekschuur

bewarethanatos · 14th October 2007, 06:30 PM

I've had a Dell computer for the past 5-6 years that has worked fairy well. The only time it's ever crashed is when I filled up the hard drive until there was only about 100MB left and then ran iTunes.

Running multiple memory-hungry programs at once slows it down, but it's not like I haven't had that problem on a Mac or a PC running Linux or any other PC (HP, Compaq, Acer, Toshiba, etc.)

I've had more trouble with Macs then I ever have with PC's.

pilahaka · 14th October 2007, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lowfreq33

How about better quality control?

As I understand it, the majors, including Dell and Apple are all made by one of a few manufacturers. Quanta is a big one:

Quanta Computers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've owned two powerbooks and both of them had bad RAM installed. I do have a Macbook Pro that rocks in every way, though. I've had plenty of crappy PCs, as well as some good ones, too.

I just felt the need to respond to an obvious troll from a previous poster. My mistake. Saying that PC users don't have REAL computer knowledge is just silly, and maybe I shouldn't have dignified it with a response. My bad.

MacBook - Appledefects

olivia_nb · 14th October 2007, 07:16 PM

My Dell has been my faithful partner for the last 3 years, I just this weekend reinstalled XP and all my apps for the first time in those 3 years... it makes me coffee in the morning and gives me a reach around at night, all you mac users are suckers...

bunnerabb · 15th October 2007, 12:07 AM

I have a lovely Inspiron laptop.

Second motherboard fried, recently.

It makes a dandy paperweight.

sahiaman · 15th October 2007, 04:31 AM

Though I have never bought a Dell, I do have friends and family members with them. The problems those Dells have is that there is a huge amount of crap software already installed on them. Letting these programs run in the background can really tax your system up. So I ended up uninstalling all the third party software on them as soon as they bought them. Out of all those people only one of them actually had hardware failure.
The problem isn't pcs in general, its the spam ware cookies when the owner starts to go on sites offering, "free" things, or porn. Those bog up the computer and then they end up complaing that their computers are slow.
Thats where Mac excells. You don't have to worry about having to fight adware if your computer is online.

christmasjones · 15th October 2007, 03:25 PM

I've had my dell for 5 years and i've never had a problem. I'd say I've only turned it off maybe 10 times since i've owned it (

al gore! don't flame me, i use the expensive light bulbs!). Of course I use my mac for recording...

AlexLakis · 15th October 2007, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lostintheocean0

Anyone with any REAL computer knowledge knows to buy a MAC...

Wait, I thought not knowing anything about computers was the main attraction to buying a Mac?

Quote:

Originally Posted by lowfreq33

How about better quality control?

Build your own PC. A+ quality control here.

ddageek · 15th October 2007, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syra

I order sm 3 months ago...2.5 months ago I cancel the order, 2 months ago they ship it and charge me

... Today I still don't have my money you F*CKING lame ass company!!!!!!!!

I've called too many times and all I hear is apologies...take you apologies and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR *SS YOU B*ST*RDS!!!!!!!!!

CALL YOUR CREDIT CARD COMPANY!!!!!!!

LoopQuantum · 15th October 2007, 07:03 PM

3 Dells and 2 Macs in the house.

Of those....more headaches with the G5, and Dual 1.25 G4 than all three Dells combined.

Guess I'm lucky?

Duardo · 15th October 2007, 07:06 PM

Why was this (almost) three-year-old thread resurrected?

At least maybe we'll be able to find out if the original poster eventually had their money refunded...

bexarametric · 17th October 2007, 02:53 AM

I had a Dell. Hated it. I have Macs now. I'm happy.

Lownotes · 17th October 2007, 05:59 AM

I'm on a Dell now. Shipping was very fast. Works great. Of course now that I've "said" that...

Y-Studios · 17th October 2007, 03:42 PM

I have a xps for about 3 years now. No problems at all. If u go online to the porn sites like someone said around here then u will have problems..lol. But besides that its a great system. Now i do want to get a mac so i can get on Logic.

You guys think the IMac is good for Logic?

Vandergraf · 17th October 2007, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by olivia_nb

My Dell has been my faithful partner for the last 3 years, I just this weekend reinstalled XP and all my apps for the first time in those 3 years... it makes me coffee in the morning and gives me a reach around at night, all you mac users are suckers...

What the f . . .!!!!? I must have bought the really cheap models.

Freematik · 18th October 2007, 04:25 AM

Dells are weak, you can get better performance by having a local system builder put something together, and you don't have to deal with propietary this, and propietary that. It's hard to even get an answer from them about what components are used.

From previously working in tech support for a company that makes DAW products, I can honestly say that Dell's made my life more hell than just about anything. And if the guy had Sonar too, well then ****...

Sorry sonarheads, I know you love your app, xray is pretty cool and all that, but really...

-Tom

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28th October 2004, 03:42 PM	#1
syra Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: L.A. Posts: 1,423	I HATE HATE HATE...DELL !!!! I order sm 3 months ago...2.5 months ago I cancel the order, 2 months ago they ship it and charge me ... Today I still don't have my money you FCKING lame ass company!!!!!!!! I've called too many times and all I hear is apologies...take you apologies and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR SS YOU BSTRDS!!!!!!!!!

28th October 2004, 05:11 PM	#2
Jose Mrochek Lives for gear Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 3,850	I have a Dell, can't wait to sell it get a mac. PC's suck. __________________ www.thejoti.com www.myspace.com/thejoti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYtPFPrHut0 ¨But, then again, I'm British and think you Yanks with your fancy pre for each track are a bunch of weirdos¨ Mark

28th October 2004, 07:08 PM	#3
LTA Gear addict Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Chicago Posts: 476	Typical dell owners :( So full of violence and hate. Sure it was cheap, but you have to deal with dell. lol. At least you didn't want yours, instead of having it for 3 weeks and it breaking down, then having a technician in-house 4-5 days trying to get a cheap computer to work again. And then there was the old job that decided to try and upgrade expendable dells. They are dumpster fodder. There is inexpensive, and then there is cheap. __________________ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

28th October 2004, 07:14 PM	#4
djui5 Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Phoenix Posts: 6,680	I have a Dell and it's great.....I love it. It was given to me also............ __________________ _________________ "What is a crossfire hurricane & why wasn't I born in one?" Randy Wright http://www.myspace.com/djui5

29th October 2004, 12:13 AM	#5
studjo Lives for gear Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 1,898	shit and I thought you hate Lindell Jo

29th October 2004, 10:29 AM	#6
orange Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: London Posts: 1,664	At work I have about 200 dell dual xeon workstations and 150 dell dual xeon rack servers. All working 24/7 they have been fantastic - hardly any failures at all in the last year (maybe 2 graphics cards and 1 or two hard drives). better than most of the other kit I have here. si

30th October 2004, 10:07 AM	#7
max cooper Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: tx Posts: 8,819	Here's a really funny article about Dell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north159.html My favorite part is the link to a utility that works in Win 95, 98 and ME. With it, you can change the color of the Blue Screen of Death to green, purple or black. My last PC was a Dell. I kept it around after switching to Macs so I could run (then) Sonic Foundry applications. When it finally died, I took it into the alley and beat it to pieces with a tire iron. It crashed constantly, pretty much right out of the box, several times a day. Dell's support was basically nonexistent. F U Michael Dell.

20th November 2004, 02:43 AM	#8
Lostintheocean0 Gear interested Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Savannah Posts: 10	Anyone with any REAL computer knowledge knows to buy a MAC... __________________ ~My love is music, I will merry melody~

14th October 2007, 04:49 PM	#10
Vandergraf Gear maniac Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 289	I've had three Dells. The Inspiron laptop had issues about 1 month before the warranty was going to die. They sent out the tech. Twice in one week. The second time he came, he told me that he couldn't figure out why it randomly re-booted. So he replaced every part except the TFT monitor. That was four years ago and it still works great. All in all I can't complain too much about any of my Dell purchases, but my favorite PC in the house is my wife's new MACbook. That will be my next one! __________________ My therapist says I am a habitual liar and an attention seeker, therefore nothing I say or write is true and under no circumstance should I be believed nor held accountable for anything I say. ♫ ♪ ♫ "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie" :: Bob Dylan

14th October 2007, 04:55 PM	#11
PoorGlory Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,268	PCUSA.com has built two computers for me over the past 6 years and both have been stellar. The Compaq and Gateway computers I used to have sucked ass (of course, this was in the 90s). I did buy a Dell laptop about 4 years ago, and had to have it repaired (under warranty). It's been just ok since then... no big crashes or anything. Forget the big players. Build it custom yourself, or have a company like PCUSA build it.

14th October 2007, 05:07 PM	#12
darkman2 Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: montserrat w.i. Posts: 114	i got kicked in the a... with dells. i use p/t le . went with a sweetwater dual core.. so far so good...

14th October 2007, 06:22 PM	#15
muziekschuur Gear addict Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Stavenisse Posts: 407	I have a new Inspiron 1720 here with two harddisks and it is an amazing experience. The second harddrive does 52mb/s write. It will be amazing to record/mix with. Muziekschuur __________________ I use BAGEND SPEAKERS. you should hear em too.

14th October 2007, 07:16 PM	#18
olivia_nb Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LA (Beagle Rock), CA Posts: 1,182	My Dell has been my faithful partner for the last 3 years, I just this weekend reinstalled XP and all my apps for the first time in those 3 years... it makes me coffee in the morning and gives me a reach around at night, all you mac users are suckers... __________________ http://demo.olivianeutronbomb.com

15th October 2007, 12:07 AM	#19
bunnerabb Lives for gear Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Big Wide City Posts: 1,083	I have a lovely Inspiron laptop. Second motherboard fried, recently. It makes a dandy paperweight. __________________ "It CAN be done. You can drive a car with your feet, but that don't make it a good f*cking idea". - Chris Rock

15th October 2007, 04:31 AM	#20
sahiaman Lives for gear Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 528	Though I have never bought a Dell, I do have friends and family members with them. The problems those Dells have is that there is a huge amount of crap software already installed on them. Letting these programs run in the background can really tax your system up. So I ended up uninstalling all the third party software on them as soon as they bought them. Out of all those people only one of them actually had hardware failure. The problem isn't pcs in general, its the spam ware cookies when the owner starts to go on sites offering, "free" things, or porn. Those bog up the computer and then they end up complaing that their computers are slow. Thats where Mac excells. You don't have to worry about having to fight adware if your computer is online.

15th October 2007, 03:25 PM	#21
christmasjones Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 669	I've had my dell for 5 years and i've never had a problem. I'd say I've only turned it off maybe 10 times since i've owned it ( al gore! don't flame me, i use the expensive light bulbs!). Of course I use my mac for recording... Last edited by christmasjones; 15th October 2007 at 03:26 PM.. Reason: typeo

15th October 2007, 07:03 PM	#24
LoopQuantum Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 551	3 Dells and 2 Macs in the house. Of those....more headaches with the G5, and Dual 1.25 G4 than all three Dells combined. Guess I'm lucky? __________________ ----------------------------------------------------- PIGEONS ARE THE RATS OF THE SKY!!!!

15th October 2007, 07:06 PM	#25
Duardo Lives for gear Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,018	Why was this (almost) three-year-old thread resurrected? At least maybe we'll be able to find out if the original poster eventually had their money refunded...

17th October 2007, 02:53 AM	#26
bexarametric Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dallas Posts: 919	I had a Dell. Hated it. I have Macs now. I'm happy. __________________ "60% of the time it works every time." "MacGyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can roundhouse-kick his head through a wall and take it."

17th October 2007, 05:59 AM	#27
Lownotes Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 175	I'm on a Dell now. Shipping was very fast. Works great. Of course now that I've "said" that...

17th October 2007, 03:42 PM	#28
Y-Studios Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 232	I have a xps for about 3 years now. No problems at all. If u go online to the porn sites like someone said around here then u will have problems..lol. But besides that its a great system. Now i do want to get a mac so i can get on Logic. You guys think the IMac is good for Logic? __________________ www.stopoilprices.com www.Y-STUDIOS.net www.myspace.com/ystudios

18th October 2007, 04:25 AM	#30
Freematik Gear interested Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 8	Dells are weak, you can get better performance by having a local system builder put something together, and you don't have to deal with propietary this, and propietary that. It's hard to even get an answer from them about what components are used. From previously working in tech support for a company that makes DAW products, I can honestly say that Dell's made my life more hell than just about anything. And if the guy had Sonar too, well then ****... Sorry sonarheads, I know you love your app, xray is pretty cool and all that, but really... -Tom