Dells gone nuts on new models - Page 7

Domokun · 11th July 2012, 8:10 PM

After — literally — disassembling a whole Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition to remove the mSATA SSD, I discovered that four screws were missing (two from the hard drive bay, two from the motherboard). Now unless Dell are cutting costs by only including the bare minimum amount of screws, I think this is a slightly dodgy assembly effort.

Domokun · 15th July 2012, 11:53 PM

Back with — potentially — another rant. Has anyone had any dramas with the touchpad not working when the AC adapter is plugged in? I've found this to be an issue on certain power outlets with the Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition, but not with other laptops.

AFireInside · 21st July 2012, 1:51 PM

I think Dell's lost their appeal. They used to be awesome in the way you could customize almost any hardware config on their laptops. Now all you can do is change a shitty changeable lid and add rubbish overpriced accessories!

I'm looking at either the XPS 13 ultrabook or Inspiron 13z and you can't change a damn thing on these models, just different pre-built models with different CPU's. Give me the option of a higher res screen and i'm there.

11th July 2012, 8:10 PM	#91
Domokun Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,884	After — literally — disassembling a whole Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition to remove the mSATA SSD, I discovered that four screws were missing (two from the hard drive bay, two from the motherboard). Now unless Dell are cutting costs by only including the bare minimum amount of screws, I think this is a slightly dodgy assembly effort. __________________ "I will never say never." — Justin Bieber

15th July 2012, 11:53 PM	#92
Domokun Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,884	Back with — potentially — another rant. Has anyone had any dramas with the touchpad not working when the AC adapter is plugged in? I've found this to be an issue on certain power outlets with the Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition, but not with other laptops. __________________ "I will never say never." — Justin Bieber

21st July 2012, 1:51 PM	#93
AFireInside Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Melbourne Posts: 564	I think Dell's lost their appeal. They used to be awesome in the way you could customize almost any hardware config on their laptops. Now all you can do is change a shitty changeable lid and add rubbish overpriced accessories! I'm looking at either the XPS 13 ultrabook or Inspiron 13z and you can't change a damn thing on these models, just different pre-built models with different CPU's. Give me the option of a higher res screen and i'm there. __________________ ll i7 2600K ll Noctua NH-C12P SE2 ll ASUS P8Z77-i Deluxe ll OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120GB ll Samsung 840 500GB x2 ll 16GB G.skill Ares 1600Mhz ll eVGA GTX 680 4GB FTW+ ll Silverstone SG08 ll Logitech G700, G710+ and G930 ll Audioengine 5 ll