Dell's Hardware is Junk

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My warranty was up on nov 24th....My Floppy Drive Died tonight......I just happened to have another floppy that came out of a HP that was bought in 2000......it works like a charm......and fit right in this XPS Gen 3.........I wonder whats gonna die next....so lets see...my original 6800GTO card was junk......and now floppy died...I only used it about 5 times .......Its a Samsung.....I replaced it with a mitsubishi.....man if that dont beat all.........Come on Dell....you got to do better than this.....if you want repeat customers.....I ought to start my own computer building business.,.......I have the cash available....if I could find a partner who would match 20 grand....I would go for it......I have been mulling this thought over for abou a year .......Gateway was started with 10 grand in a barn...Dell started in a  dorm........

Georgia_Rebel · Answer

they put it in this thing.....

davemanfl · Answer

Samsung drive how is this Dells fault..

Z_Ghost · Answer

I have used my Floppy Drive about 75 to 100 times so far and it still works and I have not had any problems so far at all.

CTskydiver · Answer

Floppy drives are so 1980's.

Use a USB 2.0 Thumb drive, for Pete's sake.

And yeah, my "Oy vey" post shoulda gone here.

Edit: Maybe you should take all that available cash your always telling us you have and buy some stock in your favorite computer company so that next stockholder's meeting you can give your buddies at Dell an earful.

Message Edited by CTskydiver on 12-03-2005 04:16 AM

VCraig · Answer

...'Maybe you should take all that available cash your always telling us you have and buy some stock in your favorite computer company so that next stockholder's meeting you can give your buddies at Dell an earful.'...   :smileyvery-happy:

Phil1234 · Answer

Well things were quiet for a while :smileysurprised: What does a floppy drive cost to replace anyway? maybe 8 or 10 dollars? It happens, life goes on... Phil.

Georgia_Rebel · Answer

thats not the point..it dont matyer how old the tech is or how much the device costed........I have machines that are over 6 years old and still work fine......The Dell tech admitted to me that on the 6800gto cards they released them for sale before they realy tested them...s soon as they saw how bad these cards were they pulled them (they sold for only 7 weeks), and everyone who bought one got a bad card.......Dell should have recalled al of them.....but all they did was pull them from being sold........hard ware should last for years specialy floppy drives........so far I have replaced the video card with a retail one....the hard drives with retail ones...the floppy with an older one out of a spare machine......the only internal parts from Dell are the mother board.....sound card and power supply........no I wont be buying another Dell ever again....I over looked th video card deal because they upgraded my processor free.....I recently bought a Toshiba laptop...has 2 hard drives...Raid-0..2 gig centrino...DVD dual layer burner....great sound system for a laptop.........1 gig of memory...Windows XP MCE.........Blue Tooth Tech.....Modem.....wired net card....wireless net card.....TV tuner.......Radio Tuner....all sorts of other wireless features...PCI-E 6600 video card...17" wide screen true ??? tech....the thing works like a dream...bench test at pcpitsop at 1780......and It costed me a little over $2700....I bought it at my local compusa.........the ratings on this thing beat all other laptops..........you can see it here

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Aeterno · Answer

Really, hardware fails. Things aren't always built perfectly. Even the most perfectly designed equipment can have a little screwup in assembly that makes it fail sooner than it should. Just because _your_ drive failed doesnt mean that the ones that dell tested did... Chances are that Dell didnt even do the testing, they just trusted Samsung's testing to be adequate, thats a pretty normal thing and it doesn't make it their fault the drive failed.

Phil1234 · Answer

I know where this is going so I'll gracefully opt out of watching it any further. Phil.

Georgia_Rebel · Answer

its not going anywhere....I just feel when you buy whats suppose to be computer makers top system...it shoul;d have top parts in it.....samsung  is and has always been junk......

Georgia_Rebel · Answer

this is the 5th samsung part I have had that bit the dust .....this one didnt even last as long as the others...the others lasted for about 14-16 months before they died.......so my proof is personal experience with their products....I will never knoiw abot the memory in this thing...I have already replaced it with crucial ballistix memory last week

VCraig · Answer

...'samsung  is and has always been junk'....   And you have what facts to back this up?

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