Animus Wisdom

Well I finally got a replacement laptop from Dell, it replaces the dead on arrival laptop that took more than a month to get here and more than a week to try and get repaired.

But finally this new laptop seems to work fine, I just finished installing Gentoo from Stage 1 on it and I’m currently building KDE 3.5 and 4.

I was unable to do any development work for month since my old Compaq laptop is overheating like there is no tomorrow. If I try to compile anything on it reboots on me. T_T

But now, finally I can get some real work done. ^_^

Cheers

In and Out in 10 minutes

As you may know, for the first time I decided to buy a computer via the internet. That is hard for me since I’m more of a walk into a store and get it right now type of person.

But I do try to change my behavior once in a while and I decided to buy a DELL XPS laptop computer with GNU/Linux pre-installed, my fears of buying something expensive like a laptop via the internet or phone have always been “processing” delays and having to return the product if it is faulty.

And wouldn’t you know it, It took 30 days to ship!!! and when I got my laptop it came with a busted backlight YAY DELL!!!

Cry not, do or do not. There is no Cry

Of course I’m an adult :-P so I see no point in crying over spilled milk. It seemed like a great opportunity to try out their “Customer Support” to get some “real experts” to help me $-P. After 30 minutes in a chat session they told me to contact support via phone. :-S ( I died a little )

Call this my personal hell

I hate call centers, I can’t understand half of the people that “help me” and they seem to love to use that damn transfer button. 5 hours later and after talking to *all* the DELL employees ( or at least it felt like I did ), I got the chance to ask for a replacement LCD.

The moral of this story

Never buy a laptop from the internet… no… that’s not right.

Never buy from DELL ? naa that’s not fair but they do need to work on their quality control and production time.

Well just trust your gut and go buy locally if possible.

This past week I have found it hard to get anything done. my P.O.S. laptop has been powering off every 10-30 Minutes. I opened it up to see what the problem was and it seems a few thing have gone to the laptop heavens. I don’t know how the Power Button cable got into the CPU fan ( but I can guess ).

So I decided to buy my self a new laptop, I was gonna get a desktop but since I have a few engagements in the following months I will need something portable to work on.

I searched around for good Linux friendly laptops that *hopefully* wouldn’t need special drivers ( damn EEEPC :P ) I found a good one at Dell’s site and bought my self a custom XPS laptop.

XPS M1330, Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 (2.16GHz, 667Mhz, 2M L2 Cache)
4 GB RAM
All INTEL
*Drool* :-E

So good bye P.O.S. Compaq.