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Has anyone purchased a Dell computer lately
Yooper; I set up a new computer in the fall. The McAfee firewall conflicts with the MS one. The e machine I bought had all three, Norton, MS and McAfee and all on. It acted like a bucking bronco for a while. I just shut off the firewalls and then the system straightened out. I only use the Norton one now. My advise is to check and shut them off. Sometimes it takes on or two attempts as I find they don't always seem to register. Incidently I found this bug on the Compact I bought the year before.
There are still bugs in the MS software. I have on on the old HP. If I use the internet it always tries to dial me in. I have everything shut off but in does not seem to register. My daughter uses it and her second account does not have the problem. Why? MS faulty logic I guess. I wish I had some money every time I have written a note to MS to debug their software. I would be a rich man.
Concerning the parallel port you had me guessing as I never used it on the E machine although I have two printers networked through that system.
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Wingwiper, I have two HP computers and 3 printers at the moment. I know that the problem with the HP is XP. The only problem I have had with that 6 year old unit is trying to keep drives in the first bay. I have had no problem with the Compaq except. The initial fire wall conflict.
Ken, Emachines is now part of Gateway. The machine I bought is a gateway clone. I different colour switch in the center. I agree with you there is a cost disadvantage with building your own now, even with recycling many of the parts.
I bought and set up one Sony for my mom. The system has had few problems beyond software. One case is not a good base line for statistic though.
My experience level with computers tends to be cyclic with demand over my 28 years. I am sure many of you know more than I at this point. I have had reasonable success with Dell and HP at work over the years. I am too cheap to buy them for home/office as I can ussually find a better deal elsewhere.
The latest PCWORLD talked about extended warantees. They said 77% recommended them. Then in the fine print they said they only had enough respondant from Dell to be significant. No exactly sure how I need to read this. 77% of the time the extended warantee is necessary with a Dell? Dell and others are make a lot of $$ of the extended waranty. I normally don't have any problems beyond the burn in period.
Personally I was leaning toward an IBM laptop and then it was sold.
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I have only purchase to refurb systems but have had mixed success. I bought a Compaq and it was supurb.
I bought an NEC laptop and had nothing but problems. There was an intermitten fault in the start switch which was wired onto the motherboard. I had the system less than a year and returned it once. They claimed it was just a loose board. I had to start it a dozen time until it would finally catch. It finally gave out and I could not get it to started. I had a couple of tech look at it. I had it open so many times I could do it in my sleep. A new mother board for it was more than a new system. Naturally NEC did not want to admit they had not found the problem after they warantee was out.
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