News Dell accused of flaw coverup

Hi Lionel Menchaca!

Did you just drop in as a regular reader or are you busy firefighting the net?

Windows XP is an extreme operating system?

 

Deleting valid complaints instead of just dealing with them in an open way is about the worst a company can do. It's also the reason i never buy any Dell stuff for me or friends and family. I've seen how good dell corporate support is, so the fact it's such utter tripe for consumers means the CHOOSE that level of service.

 

I think the laptop I use at work has this problem, I thought I was just throwing too much at it!

A few instances of Visual Studio + ASP.Net dev server up, plus SQL Server + dual monitor looks to do the trick.

Is there a tool (CPU profiler etc) I can grab to confirm this is what's causing my laptop's dire performance?

 

I use Everest (not free.. but trial version will do). You can see anything you want to know about your computer. If it throttles you will notice the CPU stuck at a very low speed no mater what you do.

You can even do a stress test. To do this , go on the menu bar of Everest, go to "Tools" > "System stability test". And run it. It can test everything expect GPU.

 

Try OCCT, it generates graphs or voltages, clock speed and temperatures as the test runs and displays them at the end.

 

That comment is about as welcome here as your PCs. Also can you please use better components in your PSUs? I'm getting fed up of replacing them at work......

 

I live in Chile, right in the middle of Atacama desert, the "driest place on Earth".
For me me there was, for a long time a bad trilogy, Pinochet, Microsoft and CTC (the chilean branch of Telefonica, the big spanish comunications holding).
They represented for me how frequently people who feel they are above any possibility of threat to their position do not care for others.
I had to live with the three of them.
But there is hope.
Telefonica is much more amiable now. I must say it is not THE one big phone company in Chile; they have enough competition now;
the other two do not bother me now either.

Bit-tech is behaving well in this respect, harsh critics in forums have not been hushed. (look here)

I don't forgive some companies. I think that if they don't say "i'm sorry" I won't ever buy an Nvidia or Intel product.

I just cannot stand in my guts having an Nvidia card after they doctored their drivers to process benchmarks incompletely and so have better fps;
I cannot stand the way Intel abused AMD.
--ATI also cheated but they did say "sorry"--

 

Yes, ATI did say sorry, but continues to do it.. so they are worse.. they are hypocrites.

A business is ONLY successful by taking advantage of people. Imagine if Best Buy actually sold their product 10-15% over cost and have employee (including bonuses) without commission, and offered fair price on GeekSquad services. Best Buy will portable go bankrupt, or be a fraction of the size they are now (maybe 2-3 stores in US and Canada). I know no one cares about Bets Buy.. but I am just showing that the principal of business is based on taking advantage of people.

And as long as people go and buy a product at a certain price... why reduce it? why change what the company would change it's non ethical moves?

 

ATI/AMD no better either

I was banned from the AMD games forum site for gently expressing disappointment that the latest drivers on ATI's site at the time did not even support the 58xx series.

The mods there are exceptionally high-handed and will seemingly ban anyone with the temerity to disagree with them, or question ATI/AMD in any way.

There is no right to free speech in a corporate dystopia. Thank God there's a Bill of Rights here in the US.

I'll be selling my dual 5870's when Fermi comes out. I never had issues like this with Nvidia, which - although not perfect- seems to genuinely like and value their customers.

PS - I've owned a Dremel for 15 years now. WTF is the deal with my descriptor?! lol

 

Yeah...you represent close to 2000 Dell's...try talking to your "account Manager" when you own one and it breaks

Still I'll probably get a Dell as it's near impossible to get anything else in a mediocre pricerange without a "Gloss" panel.

 

This is an obvious design fault or what have you..but I can't think of any major PC vendor that hasn't has this problem. I have an HP, which is supposed to be a business notebook and it looks like it was made from recycled fertiliser sacks and 2 litre pop bottles, in fact that is not fair, a 2 litre pop bottle probably doesn't flex as much. Then the Macbook Pro I bought in September is on its third incarnation, the first two must have been in quality control when Red Robbo and Ned Ludd were shift managers.

I just got a Dell Studio 1557 for myself, the Macbook wore my patience down, and i've ended up with a laptop which is easily twice as graphical powerful (9400m vs 4570) and CPU wise its running a Core i7 720. Whilst its not perfect, looks pretty built, does turn itself off in a game if you have Powerplay disabled in CCC though and does get pretty hot, but its made a hell of a lot better than the HP and it hasn't broken down like the Apple. The screen is something else, pic quality wise.

Ok, not all Dell's are fault free, not all HP's are made badly and not all Apple's go wrong. But some do, and they are the ones that will get everyone talking, and quite rightly.