Dell vs Toshiba

[erixun]

Dell rox!!!

In reply to a few posts dissing Dell's bad customer service I must add a few personal cents.
I have been using Dells for the last 3 years and have had nothing but good experiences. I don't know if its because I only buy Latitudes or if its because I buy the on-site warranty, but they are right on the money whenever there is a problem. I treat my machines pretty rough being on the road a lot so they go thru a lot of bumps and weather extremes.
Once in Hawaii the harddrive crashed. After calling Dell, the next day there was a technician at my hotel room with a new drive who promptly replaced it and reloaded the operating system for me. I had access to all my install CD's and he went ahead and set up all my other software as well for no additional charge.
Another time in Stockholm, Sweden a few pixels right in the middle of the screen burned out. A call to Dell(USA) had a guy at the hotel the next day with a new screen which he installed in about 20 minutes.
So all in all I am very impressed with Dell and cannot find any other notebook manufacturer with that level of global on-site warranty for such a low price. Its just my experience and opinion but its Dell for me for now until someone else tops them.

[Clavdivs]

..so know we know what Dell sales guys are reading at 1 o'clock in the morning.

[DaveB]

Looks like someone is trawling the web for negative comments about dell and then rebutting them. Prolly a standard post as well.

Fron the language they are definately not UK based either. Definate colonial odour there.

[TheMonkey]

I have a Toshiba Satellite M50 - P4M 1.73GHz / 14" widescreen / Radeon / DVDRAM / 60Gb disk. Bought it from John Lewis the day it came out for £899.

Keyboard and touchpad are tulipe though - one crumb and they pack up.

[HankWangford]

Dell

I have a Toshiba Satellite M50 - P4M 1.73GHz / 14" widescreen / Radeon / DVDRAM / 60Gb disk. Bought it from John Lewis the day it came out for £899.

Keyboard and touchpad are tulipe though - one crumb and they pack up.

I've got a dell xps m170, cost £2300, 2.3Ghz, 2gb, 17 inch widescreen lightening fast for .net 2.0 sql server 2005 plus it has flashing neon lights. That was the deal clincher.

[interested]

I used to have a Toshiba, which was great until I spilt a load of red wine on it, I now have a Dell Latitude which is kind of OK.

Am seriously thinking of the 17" Macbook Pro for home use.

[TheMonkey]

I used to have a Toshiba, which was great until I spilt a load of red wine on it, I now have a Dell Latitude which is kind of OK.

Am seriously thinking of the 17" Macbook Pro for home use.

Latitudes were great - I got throught 5 of them in the day (XPS series).

MacBooks will burn your cock right off.

[interested]

Latitudes were great - I got throught 5 of them in the day (XPS series).

MacBooks will burn your cock right off.

Only going to use it on a desk and unfortunately my cock doesn't reach that far. Plus they've lowered the price and upped the spec today so it looks like a veritable bargain.

[cojak]

I've been using a client's Toshiba for the last 18 months. It's been ok but the batteries's run out of steam (only has about 30 mins stand-alone life before I have to find a socket) and now no longer shuts down normally. I'm backing up every night 'cos I'm not expecting it to wake up the next morning...

My Fujitsu is still going strong (I'll give it to hubby when I buy a new one later this year).

[Spacecadet]

In the space of 3 years i managed to get through 2 Dell latitudes, thankfully neither were paid for by me One of them stopped booting everytime, the other one suffered from a broken keyboard and mouse pad.

In their defence, I was a very heavy user, about 10+ hours a day every day almost including a few 36 hour stints. So they definitely got (ab)used a bit