Tag: dell

I bought a Dell XPS 15

I’ve been trying to justify buying a new laptop for nearly 2 years. Despite it being the only thing that allows me to earn an income, I have been stuck in this “the old one still works” mindset: even though it’s slower, heavier, and has approximately 6 minutes battery life these days. Given the Acer’s […]

Impressed By Dell Customer Support

After giving a grace period of a couple of days in case the issue was not hardware based, I called Dell on Thursday last week about my slightly iffy “t” key. I can’t say as I was looking forward to it — support from any company often ranges from useless to totally wank — but […]

First Post on New Laptop

After ignoring what could possibly be sound advice I decided to order the Dell Vostro 1000. It arrived today, and here I am typing away. Or rather, I’m “yping” away because I seem to have a bit of a dodgy T key. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s new and needs breaking in a […]

Justifying Big Spends

Some of you may remember that I was given a new computer at work at the end of last month (an AMD Althon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000 beast). I can assure you all it’s working fantastically. In fact, it’s working too fantastically. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting home and finding my […]