Dell

A coworker and I ordered these laptops because we need portable yet muscular machines. These seemed to strike a reasonable balance.
Dell has completely screwed the pooch on this model. The rep, through no fault of his own, kept telling me about this laptop and promising it would be available by a certain week. [...]

You’re probably like me, in that I’m sick of seeing that headline all over the place.  Everybody’s posting it and arguing over it.
I almost didn’t use the title but it truly describes where we might be now.
If you read my eee pc review (written two days ago but delayed due to blog software failure and [...]

I did a little research and settled on the Asus eee pc 1000, largely due to its largely. The screen is bigger than the rest, as is the keyboard. It got very good reviews. My application is a monitoring and doing emergency repairs on my network remotely.
I liked the Dell because it [...]

I’m seriously thinking about one of these mini laptop thingies.  Since I work in a Dell shop, the deal should pretty much be sealed by this point.
It’s not.
Dell has seriously botched this little adventure.  Rumors aside, Michael Dell was spotted a while back with a version of this laptop and the press went mental.  Then [...]

A coworker was having some trouble with his Dell computer.  He took it to Best Buy.  They took one look at it and proclaimed he needed a new motherboard.
He was not convinced and had it looked at elsewhere.  Turns out the motherboard was perfectly ok.
It would seem that since Best Buy carries Dell, they won’t [...]

Hold onto your browsers, people.  You can order it next week.
Don’t know much more about the specs or, heaven forbid, the price, but you’ll be able to order it next week.  I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t go with Ubuntu 8.04 preinstalled, but I won’t hold it against you (too much) if you insist [...]

Most people who have tried to install linux on a laptop know that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to accomplish.  It can go decently or it can be extremely painful.  It’s not as difficult as trying to convince the IRS you don’t owe money, but perhaps slightly more difficult than paying for [...]

With apologies to Earle, who wrote earlier and really likes Vista, I had to post my second Vista experience.
Keeping in mind that no good deed ever goes unpunished, I got stuck loading Office and vpn software on a coworker’s new Dell computer.  This is the one that Dell wouldn’t let them return for one that [...]

The guy who happens to own the company that employs me asked me to take a look at his laptop.  It was not downloading mail and Outlook kept crashing.  He sent mail to Microsoft, who told him he was running an old version of Office and he needed to update.   Thanks, Microsoft, you’ve been a [...]

For years, device and peripheral builders could get away with ignoring the Linux desktop market. It was too small to matter, they would say. Things have changed. At the Linux Foundation meeting in Austin, Texas, last month, major PC vendors ASUS, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo said they would be telling their chipset, component, and peripheral [...]