MacDailyNews Take: Seriously, considering that the main OS the PC box assemblers like Dell ship is Windows, aren’t they all defective, notebook and desktop alike, regardless of hardware quality or lack thereof?
Stempel and Madway continue, “A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a federal district court’s 2008 dismissal of the case against the third-largest personal computer maker. That dismissal followed the plaintiffs’ refusal to comply with a district court order that their claims be arbitrated.”
“In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs alleged that Dell violated California consumer laws by selling Inspiron notebooks that had inadequate cooling systems, power supplies and motherboards,” Stempel and Madway report. “They said the defects caused their notebooks to shut down without warning, fail to boot up, or deteriorate too quickly.”
MacDailyNews Take: Mikey, when you race to the bottom, everyone loses. SIDAGTMBTTS.
Stempel and Madway report, “In Friday’s ruling, Judge Lyle Strom said the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the case and ‘the public’s interest in a resolution on the merits weighed strongly’ in favor of letting the case continue.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Dude, you got a Dud.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brian T.” for the heads up.]
Thing that gets me about DELLs is that even if you have a specific laptop, they need to know the special code on the bottom to figure out what parts they were putting in that day.
But it cost less than a MacBook!
Three years ago, I was trying to install Anti-Virus software to get rid of all the crapware on my PC but it kept deleting Windows Vista over and over and over. So I gave up and bought a Mac.
A sideline to this story: Steve Ballmer has been offered the opportunity to head up Toyota! They want someone who can sell product that runs off on its own and crashes. Apparently they feel Ballmer has the most experience in that area.
Don’t some of the Dell’s run Linux? Or has that regressed to a “user-installed option” again? I can’t keep track. Not that it’s that important, but it could make a difference.
One of the reasons the OS isn’t that important is because we are, after all, talking about Dell, which doesn’t need any assistance, thank you, from MSFT or any other provider to market a Piece ‘o Crud excuse for a computer.
It’s not like Dell doesn’t warn the buyers—I mean, look: they put their name on the outside AND the inside.
TOYOTA: MOVING FORWARD
Even when you don’t want to
@FactMan
Best one I’ve seen in a long time!!!
Dell,
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“They said the defects caused their notebooks to shut down without warning, fail to boot up, or deteriorate too quickly.”
Q – What is the acceptable rate of deterioration for a Dell?
@The Other Steve
A- I’m thinking 3 seconds.
“They said the defects caused their notebooks to shut down without warning, fail to boot up…”
They’re after the wrong guys. Microsoft should shoulder the blame for THOSE issues.
@FactMan
LOL!!!!!!!!!
Friends don’t let friends run Windows
Ninth Circus, libtards.
@The Other Steve
Q. Name three Dell notebook FEATURES?
@ MichaelT,
“It’s not like Dell doesn’t warn the buyers …”
Good one!
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A 9th Circuit Court of Appleasl Judge…
http://www.freakingnews.com/Hot-Dell-Notebook-Pictures-27690.asp
and
http://www.freakingnews.com/Notebook-Smoke-Pictures-27694.asp
Toyota may be “Moving You Forward”… BUT Wasn’t BANKRUPT GM touting before the Toyota recall, that it’s products are equally comparable to Toyota in quality, now. Does this mean that GM cars will soon have some massive recall down the road too? GM… open mouth. insert foot!
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Ron,
jesus christ… will you just shut the fuck up with your childish political attacks on ‘liberals’.
It is really annoying and almost always unconnected with the story. Just go away or get back in school, something, but stop annoying the adults.
I asked my brother why he buys Dells. He told me “they are cheap”.
I then asked him if there is anything he doesn’t like about them. He gave me the same answer.
Factman wrote: I was trying to install Anti-Virus software to get rid of all the crapware on my PC but it kept deleting Windows Vista over and over and over
Me thinks nothing was wrong with your setup if it purged itself of Windows
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It died shortly after purchase, and months later no resolution—so much for service. I can’e be sure heat or faulty power supplies are connected, but I know it fails to boot!
But they couldn’t afford more than $600 and they needed mobility.
Before long they could have gotten an iPad and saved $100! (They already had a desktop.)
@ Amazin1,
I love the way the present administration is raking Toyota over the coals. Really running down the Toyota brand.
You’d almost think the Government owned stock in GM or something.
Toyota now manufactures 10 vehicles in North America: the Avalon, Camry, Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia, Sienna, Solara, Tacoma, Tundra, and Lexus RX330. & Production of the Camry Hybrid
So yeah, the Administration “raking them over the coals” is about as brilliant as the POTUS continually bagging on Las Vegas affecting their economy. Same net result, destructive to the economy, and potential loss of jobs in those plants as people stop buying the product them make.
Brilliant if your goal is the further destabilization of America I guess…
Faulty Dell Inspiron laptops