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tycho102 · 06-25-06, 06:54 PM

I've had a Dell desktop and a laptop. The laptop's internal battery charger died within about a year. The only good thing I have to say about that laptop is that it didn't absolutely have to have a battery in it to run; I used it as a fixed desktop for awhile. It started overheating at about the 18 month point, which was fixed by setting it on a aluminium pizza-pan. Even cracked the think open and put some Arctic Silver 5 on the CPU heatsink, but it would still overheat. I probably could have made a projector out of the LCD display, but I just wasn't motivated enough to put that much effort into it.

The desktop did ok for several years, but I can put together a comparable system for half the price. This was also back in the day when Dell didn't ship restore disks, and the drivers had to be made from floppies and the original hard drive OEM install. It took me weeks to get them to ship a restore disk on a really cheap CD-R. Plus, the power supply and floppy drive were proprietary. How the *hell* you make a proprietary floppy drive, I dunno, but I kept trying it on other systems and it would never work properly. Ended up just chucking it and buying a new drive, which worked flawlessly.

Plus, you know. None of mine have ever exploded on me.:rotfl:

06-25-06, 06:54 PM	#21
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,100 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've had a Dell desktop and a laptop. The laptop's internal battery charger died within about a year. The only good thing I have to say about that laptop is that it didn't absolutely have to have a battery in it to run; I used it as a fixed desktop for awhile. It started overheating at about the 18 month point, which was fixed by setting it on a aluminium pizza-pan. Even cracked the think open and put some Arctic Silver 5 on the CPU heatsink, but it would still overheat. I probably could have made a projector out of the LCD display, but I just wasn't motivated enough to put that much effort into it. The desktop did ok for several years, but I can put together a comparable system for half the price. This was also back in the day when Dell didn't ship restore disks, and the drivers had to be made from floppies and the original hard drive OEM install. It took me weeks to get them to ship a restore disk on a really cheap CD-R. Plus, the power supply and floppy drive were proprietary. How the hell you make a proprietary floppy drive, I dunno, but I kept trying it on other systems and it would never work properly. Ended up just chucking it and buying a new drive, which worked flawlessly. Plus, you know. None of mine have ever exploded on me.:rotfl: __________________ My little Silent Hunter 4 repository Last edited by tycho102; 06-25-06 at 06:57 PM.