anticipation
I'm expecting a new machine from Dell any day now. After reading the troubles Fred has been having I'm wondering if I made the right decision. This time I'm getting a laptop so I can work out on the patio instead of being cooped up inside all the time.
Actually it's Tricia who needs a new machine more than I do. Her clunker is about five years old and we cannot get it to communicate with the printer any more. It's also very slow on some of the new quilt design software she uses. But I've been wanting a laptop and she wants a machine like this one, so I made a deal with her.
Bill, I hope you appreciate that I have already served as the sacrificial goat, being the one in umpteen thousand Dell customers (or so they would have me believe) that has to ship a CPU back to where it came from.
Will you be upgrading your operating system? I had some unexpected incompatibilities between XP and my HP printer, had to buy new drivers. Also some legacy software is not legacied and has to be run in "compatibility mode".
If you have to call Dell Technical Support, I hope you connect with their token English speaking representative who works midnight shift two nights a week every other month.
This is my 5th Dell and I will consider other options next time; you should not have any problems because I have selflessly offered my own sanity in order to protect the wider public from going to Dell in a hatbox as I have. :-] FF
Posted by: fredf at July 31, 2003 05:31 AM