Long overdue, here is the final chapter in the warranty story going on with Dell. They indeed repaired the laptop – at least in part. The graphics now works as it should, but the computer is still unstable and hangs way too often to be useful, even with fresh installations of

Turns out Dell’s tech support wasn’t the way to go. After being told the laptop was 2 months out of warranty I had a chat with the sales guy who sold us the laptop two years ago. Friday last week he promised to look into the case and

Been using a Dell XPS M1330 at work from December 2007 until last fall (October 2009). It  worked well until it in September 2009 started to act suspiciously, crashing from time to time. Problems escalating and in October it died. The symptoms were thin verticals colored lines that successively grew