Comments on: Laptop down http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/ Mindblogging the world to itself Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Aigarius Blog » Dell service - 10.5 days turnaround http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-178 Aigarius Blog » Dell service - 10.5 days turnaround Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:37 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-178 [...] I previously mentioned that my brand new Dell Inspiron XPS m1710 notebook broke down just a few weeks after I got it. [...] [...] I previously mentioned that my brand new Dell Inspiron XPS m1710 notebook broke down just a few weeks after I got it. [...]

]]> By: Aigarius Blog » Next day means next week? http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-99 Aigarius Blog » Next day means next week? Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:51:14 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-99 [...] The Dell saga goes into second stage. Despite me having a priority XPS next day on-site warranty it took three days, one click-trough of on-line wizard, two emails and three phone calls to get the collection of my broken laptop going. And now it will only be collected on Monday. Doh! [...] [...] The Dell saga goes into second stage. Despite me having a priority XPS next day on-site warranty it took three days, one click-trough of on-line wizard, two emails and three phone calls to get the collection of my broken laptop going. And now it will only be collected on Monday. Doh! [...]

]]> By: Kevin Mark http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-96 Kevin Mark Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:34:46 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-96 Hi Aigar, as Jochen said, I've never heard of a company liking a laptop sent in with Gnu/Linux on it. Not sure which is better: to remove the hd, reformat with windows or what? IIRC, they may say they need to run tests on it with w32 software or some such nonsense. If they don't complain and dont reformat it, I'd be very curious to know. And keep up the positive attitude! The adage 'may you code in interesting times!' works well for you, go with it! Hi Aigar,
as Jochen said, I’ve never heard of a company liking a laptop sent in with Gnu/Linux on it. Not sure which is better: to remove the hd, reformat with windows or what? IIRC, they may say they need to run tests on it with w32 software or some such nonsense. If they don’t complain and dont reformat it, I’d be very curious to know.
And keep up the positive attitude! The adage ‘may you code in interesting times!’ works well for you, go with it!

]]> By: Jochen http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-95 Jochen Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:56:54 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-95 Just remove your hard disk before sending the laptop to Dell. I did that twice with my Asus model and it has been no problem (even though my second send-in was because of a broken IDE controller - Yay, new mainboard a month before my warranty expired! :-)). Just remove your hard disk before sending the laptop to Dell. I did that twice with my Asus model and it has been no problem (even though my second send-in was because of a broken IDE controller - Yay, new mainboard a month before my warranty expired! :-)).

]]> By: n8k99 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-94 n8k99 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:02:50 +0000 http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/10/laptop-down/#comment-94 Yay! I totally love your attitude! looking for the good in all things and accepting that change is for the good, totally rocks! Your solution will be much easier like that. Yay! I totally love your attitude! looking for the good in all things and accepting that change is for the good, totally rocks!

Your solution will be much easier like that.

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