[Thinkpad] OT: Anyone have experience with Dell M65?

[Colgrove, George]

Please forgive my rant; the last paragraph is irrelevant to the question
- since you have to use Dells.  Bottom line is that Dells work.  I do
not have any experience with the machine in question therefore I will
now shut up!

George W. Colgrove III

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Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:22 AM
To: Ted Frater; thinkpad at stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: Anyone have experience with Dell M65?

Where I work, we used to only use ThinkPads.  The IT department never
put the IBM (Thinkvantage) software on it so they were never able to
fully take advantage of the hardware.  Hence they were dissatisfied.
They went to HP with the idea that they would retire the TP's when they
deteriorated.  This was a few years ago.  We still use the old TP's; I
rarely (if ever) see HP's and for over a year all of our new
acquisitions were Dell's.  I went to a co-worker's desk - who had a Dell
laptop, and found that he had to baby his laptop as he opened the
screen.  Incidentally, he had a desktop monitor.  The thing is the old
TP A31's we have are taken on the road and suffer from  multiple users.
These systems fair far better than the brand new Dells setting on a
single person's desk - mostly used as a desktop machine! 

Take your pick . . .

Low-end T-series ThinkPads you can buy at big box stores are far better
(durable) machines then the super high end Dells - and now you can even
pay less (with Lenovo).  You will probably pay slightly more for a
high-end T-Series with a feature-to-feature match with a Dell high-end,
but the difference in price will get you the durability, support and
backing you simply cannot get from Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, Acer, . . ..


George W. Colgrove III

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On Behalf Of Ted Frater
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:58 AM
To: thinkpad at stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OT: Anyone have experience with Dell M65?

Pretty Good Computer Services wrote:

>We repair a lot of Dells under contract, and have been doing so since
>1992.   My wife owns a Latitude D600 and a Latitude  D400
>
>What do you need to know?
>
>On 7/31/07, Rob Bell <RobDBell at mailworks.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>I know, the 'D' word is sacrilege around here, but my work requires me
>>to use one.  I have a gracefully aging D600 right now (well, graceful
in
>>all aspects except for a little flakiness) and I'm probably going to
>>replace it with an M65.  I'd like to talk to someone who has
experience
>>with the M65 and other D-series laptops regarding modular bay
>>compatibility.  Please reply off-list if you can help.  Also, if you
>>know of a Dell forum or mailing list that I can consult that would be
>>helpful.  Please don't suggest the Dell-hosted user forums because
>>they're worthless.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob
>>
>>    
>>
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I dont know your particular Dell, but my experience might be of
interest.
 Ive had thinkpads for some 8 yrs now both as a user and a s/h dealer.
 Recently ive had  several Dells through my hands.
 
An inspiron 7500, an 8000 and a Latitude 1 gig cpu etc.
 heres my experiences with them,
 the 7500 was in my view the last properly built Dell.  Excellent 
machine well built  and works well.
The 8000 is comparable in performance to the A22p thinkpad. As for build

quality , theres no comparison. the Dell is really
flimsy plastic, with poor hinges and  generally a cheap product.
 I only took it on as it was given  to me, it wasDOA and needed serious 
repair work to get up and running
I only did so as it had the 1600 by 1200  15 in hich UXGA screen, like 
my A20P
The Dell latitude was rescued again for free from under a pile of scrap.
 It had been badly bent, with a broken screen, no HD and no batt or CD 
rom drive.
 I borrowed  the bits from a friend, plugged it in and it powered up .
I completly rebuilt it and its now with acustomer who is very pleased.
 So the latter Latitude is some tough laptop, despite flimsy plastics
again.
However theres no  doubt Thinkpads have the best quality build specs, 
durability and spares availability.
If someone else is paying for it, supporting it and replacing it in due 
course,
 then its a different matter, to buying one  with ones own money.


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