I can vouch for this - it's what we use. I can put down just about any ol crap on Dell's warranty parts form and the next day, out comes a tech with a part. Of course, this assumes that I've diagnosed it correctly. The only times I've ever had to tech support is when the tech didn't show or something like that.
I've been married for almost two years now (to a guy I met through userfriendly's peer2peer, natch) and woo, did we wrestle with this one.
I technically have two engagement rings. The first is silver and moonstone, absolutely gorgeous, purchased at a ren faire the day he proposed. I wore this for almost a year.
We looked at many, many sets of wedding bands to match that ring, and guess what? Wedding bands now are horrendously ugly, for the most part. We eventually went with plain, white gold bands for us both--we are both professional geeks who do some hands-on, and no one wants to scratch up a fancy wedding band. The problem then became, how do we get my engagement ring to go with it? I have very small fingers, and that ring would have had to have been welded to my wedding band for them both to stay on without twisting around because the ring was so skinny. Eventually we gave in and purchased a plain gold band with a.34 carat diamond on it, the same width as my wedding band, and now I can wear them both without one spinning wildly around my finger.
The other part of this was his parents. They are from a rural town in Texas and did not take our engagement seriously without a diamond. They are also the reason why we had a fairly traditional wedding with tons of people we didn't know. If we had it to do over again.....we would have custom designed wedding bands. I still love my original engagement ring and wear it often.
Right-- Why should I and my husband pay property taxes to support schools when we don't use the public schools and will never have children who will use those schools? Hardly seems fair. It's a slippery slope from there.
I actually went with DSL instead of cable modem because of this. Right now, it's not that large an issue, but I live in a group of fourteen apartment complexes all owned by the same company, in a somewhat well-off area of the city......and last year they wired *every single apartment* for cable Internet access. While in a traditional neighborhood of houses bandwidth sharing probably isn't that big an issue, but in a situation where I would be sharing bandwidth with several *thousand* others....I opted for DSL.
I work at a company that uses almost exclusively Latitude laptops. The same thing happened within the last six months or so to the Latitude batteries. We were told they were being recalled because they had a few (it was definitely more than one) catch on fire. We've got a Premier contract with them, meaning that those of us here that are Dell certified can just order the parts and they'll appear like magic the next day. Whenever we replace *any* battery we have to enter all the numbers from the battery as well as the machine's service tag, and if it's been recalled, they'll physically send someone out to get the bad one, bring us a new one, *and* a coupon for a free battery. Pretty sweet. I think Dell's doing the right thing here, but I can't help but wonder if it's the same recall, but different laptop they were being used in.
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I can vouch for this - it's what we use. I can put down just about any ol crap on Dell's warranty parts form and the next day, out comes a tech with a part. Of course, this assumes that I've diagnosed it correctly. The only times I've ever had to tech support is when the tech didn't show or something like that.
I've been married for almost two years now (to a guy I met through userfriendly's peer2peer, natch) and woo, did we wrestle with this one.
.34 carat diamond on it, the same width as my wedding band, and now I can wear them both without one spinning wildly around my finger.
I technically have two engagement rings. The first is silver and moonstone, absolutely gorgeous, purchased at a ren faire the day he proposed. I wore this for almost a year.
We looked at many, many sets of wedding bands to match that ring, and guess what? Wedding bands now are horrendously ugly, for the most part. We eventually went with plain, white gold bands for us both--we are both professional geeks who do some hands-on, and no one wants to scratch up a fancy wedding band. The problem then became, how do we get my engagement ring to go with it? I have very small fingers, and that ring would have had to have been welded to my wedding band for them both to stay on without twisting around because the ring was so skinny. Eventually we gave in and purchased a plain gold band with a
The other part of this was his parents. They are from a rural town in Texas and did not take our engagement seriously without a diamond. They are also the reason why we had a fairly traditional wedding with tons of people we didn't know. If we had it to do over again.....we would have custom designed wedding bands. I still love my original engagement ring and wear it often.
Right-- Why should I and my husband pay property taxes to support schools when we don't use the public schools and will never have children who will use those schools? Hardly seems fair. It's a slippery slope from there.
I actually went with DSL instead of cable modem because of this. Right now, it's not that large an issue, but I live in a group of fourteen apartment complexes all owned by the same company, in a somewhat well-off area of the city......and last year they wired *every single apartment* for cable Internet access. While in a traditional neighborhood of houses bandwidth sharing probably isn't that big an issue, but in a situation where I would be sharing bandwidth with several *thousand* others....I opted for DSL.
I work at a company that uses almost exclusively Latitude laptops. The same thing happened within the last six months or so to the Latitude batteries. We were told they were being recalled because they had a few (it was definitely more than one) catch on fire. We've got a Premier contract with them, meaning that those of us here that are Dell certified can just order the parts and they'll appear like magic the next day. Whenever we replace *any* battery we have to enter all the numbers from the battery as well as the machine's service tag, and if it's been recalled, they'll physically send someone out to get the bad one, bring us a new one, *and* a coupon for a free battery. Pretty sweet. I think Dell's doing the right thing here, but I can't help but wonder if it's the same recall, but different laptop they were being used in.
Excellent points. Good job not letting the overheated emotions that appeared previously in this thread cloud your thinking.