Decided to go with Dell (not HP)... Some Questions

[Ext User(Gary R. Schmidt)]

Kelpie wrote:

> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
> the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing $80
> extra.
>
> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
> difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
> extra money towards ram.

I've just got an Inspiron 9300, sprung the extra for the 750 and got 1Gb
RAM and an 80Gb disk as a freebie.

Oh, and I went for the 128Mb video, the shared video is a bit slow for
my taste.

Screen is very nice, and it runs Solaris 10 out of the box (well, I had
to pull down the iwi driver for the wireless from opensolaris.org, but
it pretty much just works)

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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[Ext User(Will_S)]

"Kelpie" <k@p.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
> the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing
> $80
> extra.
>
> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
> difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
> extra money towards ram.
>
> Cheers,
> Kelp
>
>

ram

[Ext User(Graham Fountain)]

Kelpie wrote:
> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
> the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing $80
> extra.
Dell? You have my sympathies. Good Luck (you'll need it).
>
> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
> difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
> extra money towards ram.
>
> Cheers,
> Kelp
>
>

[Ext User(Damian)]

"Kelpie" <k@p.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
> the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing
> $80
> extra.
>
> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
> difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
> extra money towards ram.
>
> Cheers,
> Kelp
>
>
I would recommend Toshiba or Fujitsu.

[Ext User(Johnnyboy)]

I got one of the Dell Inspirons with the 750 processor.
I was sceptical about Dell but it has been great. Ordering was easy and I
was rung before delivery to arrange a time.
I would imagine that extra memory would have more effect on performance than
the processor.
John
"Will_S" <spam@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Kelpie" <k@p.com> wrote in message
> news:43c46759$0$99906$c30e37c6@ken-reader.news.telstra.net...
>>
>> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
>> the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing
>> $80
>> extra.
>>
>> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
>> difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
>> extra money towards ram.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kelp
>>
>>
>
> ram
>
>
>

[Ext User(Darkman)]

And whys is that? Also I am thinking of buying a laptop, and after a
long comparisons I found that Dell is a good choice.

So please share your reasons for sympathies...

[Ext User(Graham Fountain)]

Darkman wrote:
> And whys is that? Also I am thinking of buying a laptop, and after a
> long comparisons I found that Dell is a good choice.
>
> So please share your reasons for sympathies...
>
Search on google for dell recall - should give you a fair idea.
From my first hand experiences of Dell owners who I have done some
servicing for (or have sold alternate machines too), here are just a few
of the horror stories...
One local business was waiting 3 months for the dead hard drive in their
server to be replaced. All this time the server was away, so another PC
had to be called into the server role in the meantime (at the business's
expense of course).
Another business with a Dell desktop PC has had 4 hardware related
faults in the first 8 or 9 months (thereabouts) of ownership, 2
mainboards, a hard drive and a power supply. Several other assorted
"crashes" that required reload (to be fair, some of these crashes could
have been virus related, but I have my doubts).
A local church group is still waiting for the faulty ram module in their
PC to be replaced, almost a year after the fault was first lodged. Dell
insist the fault is software related and the machine needs to be
reloaded (which has been done a gazillion times). They ignore the fact
that memtest86 goes bonkers with detected faults, and that half the time
you can't even get the reload to finish without a failure.
A customer who bought a generic 3d Accelerator card for their dell found
that every time they loaded windows it popped up with a message saying
that non-genuine hardware had been fitted and the computer shut down -
this was traced to a program getting loaded in startup, which was
subsequently disabled, but every time any of the Dell custom software
was then run it would reactivate the checking program on startup (again,
to be fair this machine is roughly 3 years old, so they may have stopped
doing this).
Another business got a batch of about a dozen (supposedly) identical
machines. Fresh out of the box they were to get their proprietary
(delphi based) software installed. Four of the machines wouldn't run
the software, despite identical installation being followed. Three of
the four would run it after a reload, one totally refused. No such
problems with any of their other brand machines.
That's just a small smattering of some of my Dell related incidents in
the last 2 years. I haven't had much to do with their laptops, but I
shouldn't expect them to be significantly better than their desktops.
HP/Compaq, Toshiba or Sony are much safer bets IME.

[Ext User(Gary R. Schmidt)]

Graham Fountain wrote:

[SNIP tales of horror about Dell _DESKTOP_ computers...]

Yes, Dell desktops are bloody awful, and support is useless unless you
can buy them in sufficient quantities that the support contract means
that they have to pay attention to your requests.

In the laptop space, just about each model is unique, so you are locked
in to a large degree regardless of _who_ you buy from, whether it be
Dell, HPaq, Toshiba, Asus, Acer, Fujitsu, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...

Also, I've found that with peecees in general, whether laptop or desktop
or server, if you buy the bottom end cheapies you get crap support,
where if you go up a rung or two to the "real" business machines the
support tends to be better.

And I've been involved in purchasing peecess and "big" computers since
1986, I've had both good and bad support from just about everybody in
the game: IBM, HP, DEC, DG, Sun, Apollo, CDC, Perkin-Elmer, Fujitsu,
Pyramid, ICL, Gould, SGI, Tandem...

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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[Ext User(Darkman)]

Thank you for your valuable information that made the image more clear.

Actually, I need a device that contains a Wi-Fi connection, Good
life time battery, MS Office and to run my Forex dealing program. I am
still a beginner in Forex trading so I am not thinking in getting a PDA
with higher than AUD$1000.00, and from another point of view, I can add
some more hundreds to get a laptop.

I am looking for your advices about having a PDA?

Darkman...

[Ext User(MJT)]

Johnnyboy wrote:

> I got one of the Dell Inspirons with the 750 processor.
> I was sceptical about Dell but it has been great.

The missus has a Dell Inspiron 1100 (2.4ghz P4 CPU) which has run
flawlessly since day 1. It's been in constant use too, particularly
running 24hrs for extended periods. It probably could do with a system
cleanup. Cost us around $1,800 back in 2004, I think it was.



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[Ext User(MJT)]

Gary R. Schmidt wrote:

> [SNIP tales of horror about Dell _DESKTOP_ computers...]
>
> Yes, Dell desktops are bloody awful, and support is useless unless you
> can buy them in sufficient quantities that the support contract means
> that they have to pay attention to your requests.

Thing is, why would you bother buying a brand name desktop. Whether it
be Dell, HP, IBM or whatever, invariably they're a lot dearer than a
system that you can build up yourself (or order to spec) from a normal
retailer. After all, the components in the brand name machines are more
often than not sourced from the same manufacturers such as Gigabyte,
Asus and so on.



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[Ext User(Kelpie)]

I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300. They come out at roughly
the same price, main difference being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing $80
extra.

Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would I find much
difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would I be better putting the
extra money towards ram.

Cheers,
Kelp

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

Kelpie <k@p.com> wrote

> I'm looking at either the Insperon 6000 or 9300.

I wouldnt, the low end Dells run their hard drives too hot for my taste
and they get a significant failure rate of the hard drives for that reason.

> They come out at roughly the same price, main difference
> being the 17" screen of the 9300 costing $80 extra.

> Anyway, one upgrade I'm looking at is the processor, would
> I find much difference going from the 740 to the 750 or would
> I be better putting the extra money towards ram.