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Joined: Jul 2003
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Hard-core CEG\'er
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Hard-core CEG\'er
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Originally posted by ZoomZoom Diva:
Mine's not made in China 
It's made in Malaysia!
Seriously, though, it is not fair to blame Dell for batteries supplied by what is generally considered a very reputable vendor. Sony has long been considered the Toyota of electronics. Blame them for not keeping up their reputation. Also, the reliability reports I have seen do not show a statistically significant difference in reliability between makes of laptop.
Malaysia FTW here!
I confirm the 'exploding laptop' was equipped with a Sony battery. I don't have time at the moment to find the Engadget article (I'm on lunch), but I'll look later.
Originally posted by JEFFtourCT:
just dont get a dell.. those inspirions and lattitudes are priced for college kids but have nothing but problems.. i've had my campaq persario v4000 for two years now and i have no complaints.
What's your basis on this? I'm not a pro-Dell consumer, but look on Ebay and search for broken laptops. Chances are, 90% of them are HP/Compaq. As far as I can tell, Dell takes it's broken-under-warranty laptops, refurbishes them, and sells them at a steep discount.
I've never had any problems with this refurbished 9300 that were not caused by me. DVD drive died, but that was after 6 months in the desert (replaced under warranty) and my motherboard, but that was because I broke the headphone jack off the motherboard ('broken' motherboard has no issues other than the jack).
This 9300 has seen and operated in +135F (remember, that's the outside temperature, think of what it is inside a non-a/c equipped trailer!) for 2-3 hours straight.
Some of the laptops I never or hardly ever see broken are IBM, Sony, Toshiba, and Clevo (Alienware/clones).
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