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On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:44:14 -0700, "Bill McKee"
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Well, if they are Dells, you'll be speaking to someone on an island off
of Bangladesh when you need support. Good luck.

Point taken.

If the Dell is bought under a company name, the support is US based.


It will still be a Dell
Proprietary parts with ridiculous prices, similar to the PS/2 line
that sunk the IBM PC

I have a Dell laptop I bought about 5 years ago. Other than the power plug
connection solder joint cracking and a broken screen. Not Dell's fault, has
been a good PC. I screwed up the mouse pad cable when I was reassembling
after the power connector resolder, but that was my fault and I use a
wireless mouse with the unit anyway. I think the cable is a fairly generic
4 wire flat cable I may go down to th3 local independent computer service
and see if they have one.