Inspiron N4010 is a horror show

On Saturday, August 3, 2013 11:59:47 AM UTC-6, Ben Myers wrote:
On Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:06:45 PM UTC-5, wrote:

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:38:12 +0000 (UTC), dg1261



wrote:







Yep, the 15R's I've worked on are the same way. To add insult to injury,



it's clear they could have easily added a door in the case bottom right



over the hard drive to facilitate hard drive swaps, but instead they force



you to pull the motherboard. They must be doing it on purpose--as you say,



to force users to abandon the machine sooner and buy new.



It is, again, a case of "the Dell from Hell" - as usual. I detest



the brand on the whole. Not a whole lot of intelligent engineering



involved.



Which of the name brands actually has real engineers and industrial designers designing their laptops? Apple? Yes! Probably Lenovo. Dell? Doubtful. They've outsourced just about everything else in desktops and laptops to their Pacific Rim ODMs. HPaq? Ditto. And they are all guilty of foisting off cheaply designed hardware on consumers.

Unfortunately, Michael Dell is distracted at the moment:

How Michael Dell Loses By Winning Dell Deal

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/michae...151551748.html

"....Dell's own board issued a report several months ago which said the company had a grim future...."