Dell KNEW that they were selling shitty computers

Post #328,789 by lincoln 6/29/10 1:58:58 PM Reply	Dell KNEW that they were selling shitty computers but the obsession with making quarterly numbers so that Wall Street would be happy (and thus upper management could keep getting their quarterly bonuses) was too great to ignore: http://www.nytimes.c...tner=yahoofinance "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #328,790 by beepster 6/29/10 2:17:10 PM Reply	All of them knew, including Dell its how they reacted after the fact that is at issue. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #328,792 by SpiceWare 6/29/10 2:41:13 PM Reply	Very true my old iMac G5 (now my sister's) developed a problem due to those faulty capacitors. Apple put a program in place to swap out the motherboards on any afflicted systems. I dropped it off and picked it up the next week w/out any hassles. The iMac's still running fine.
Post #328,797 by Ashton 6/29/10 3:26:18 PM Reply	Not just their components were crappy -- 'Service' braindead as well. To wit: Years back I reported the tribulations of a friend who had ordered an expensive Dimension 8100 to do video editing. (Subsequently I fired up her first Mac Pro.. with her old HD ready to copy over files == no instructions needed.) Make that Dementia 8100 ... Eventually , One brave Tech concluded I was Not making-up all the stuff I reported -- sent along a new mobo, HD (but not the possibly flaky memory, too..) Bottom line: it too would not load a legal, fresh retail copy of W2K, etc. etc. -- making it look as-if only Dell-sold copies of any OS could install. Eventually, quite later-on when I was given the hulk, I solved the problem (likely for both mobos, but not willing to re-swap) -- by shorting the CMOS before installing new battery: it seems in retrospect that -- the fuxxored bits within memory were within the subroutine for cksum! ergo -- it never examined itself and never threw a flag. No brilliance here, just remembered something heard about such weirdness happening. A new battery merely retained the stored/deranged program! You had to zero the sucker First. (It's still working, but with only 256M of expensive memory: unused now. Anyone want it? Screw You Dell, for incompetence as well as malfeasance. And for being the spawn of an asshole like Michael Greedhead. I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers! -- via RC
Post #328,889 by scoenye 6/29/10 9:26:44 PM Reply	Those rotten caps may still be in the pipeline... I have an eVGA GeForce 7600 card bought new late '06 that blew 4 or 5 caps last fall. It didn't take too much time on Google to find that it is still a popular trick.
Post #328,890 by Andrew Grygus 6/29/10 9:38:20 PM Reply	I had problems with one board . . . , , the Shuttle AK32 motherboard. About 2/3 of them died within about three years with overheating capacitors. A few are, however, still working fine.

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