buying a new PC....

[Pondlife]

Plus the time sourcing the components you want, waiting for them to arrive. Sending back any that arn't as ordered or DOA. Waiting for replacements...

Trying to find drivers that actually work

[TheMonkey]

Just grab a dell. Cheap, very reliable and no hassle with RMAing individual parts when something ****s up.

[interested]

Just grab a dell. Cheap, very reliable and no hassle with RMAing individual parts when something ****s up.

Reliable?!

Writing this on a 6 month old Dell laptop that frankly is now starting to resemble a pile of crap. The USB slots don't seem to now generate enough power to run some attachments, like HD's. Customer support is dire.

Am thinking about the new Merom-powered Macbook Pro in a couple of months time. I had a go on a Mac the other day and was impressed, not least that it could runs Windows seemingly a lot better than my Dell. My experience of Apple's customer support is pretty good as well - they couriered me a new pair of ipod headphones, for free, in less than 24 hours when I rang them up to tell them that I'd buggered my existing ones.

[The Lone Gunman]

Reliable?!

Writing this on a 6 month old Dell laptop that frankly is now starting to resemble a pile of crap. The USB slots don't seem to now generate enough power to run some attachments, like HD's. Customer support is dire.

Am thinking about the new Merom-powered Macbook Pro in a couple of months time. I had a go on a Mac the other day and was impressed, not least that it could runs Windows seemingly a lot better than my Dell. My experience of Apple's customer support is pretty good as well - they couriered me a new pair of ipod headphones, for free, in less than 24 hours when I rang them up to tell them that I'd buggered my existing ones.

You must have a realy small willy.

[andy]

It's better to buy a cheap dell and run it to death and throw
than buying expensive hardware which will be obsolete anyway in a year

[DaveB]

Thought you were going for a dump? or are you posting from trap 3 on a wireless connection?

[Xenophon]

Thought you were going for a dump? or are you posting from trap 3 on a wireless connection?

Very good Dave! Made me chuckle.

[interested]

You must have a realy small willy.

There aren't really any obvious insertion points on a set of ipod headphones...

[The Lone Gunman]

There aren't really any obvious insertion points on a set of ipod headphones...

You must have a realy realy realy small willy!

[ChimpMaster]

Is is worth waiting for Vista??