haha thread lock suddenly... n20nine... haha my issue is still pending though... u cant imagine the hassle i went thru... its crazy...

and to pm monkey...

well, mostly parts are refurbish. and the pain and misery of repairing the laptop and then opening up again. If it happen for the second time again, I ll suggest you to get a replacement unit from dell. or get a refund if u want too.

haha all my post here lately kinda hate dell lately. Their fault of losing a customer. I think if I have the money, I would opt for better one with quality and reliability like after 4 months it wont spoilt.

This post has been edited by seale_navy: Apr 25 2008, 06:04 PM

well naturally thats normal and the hinge will be quite loose. but if u were to replace it.. they will have to detach the screen from the body. or.. u could just claim for a replacement under the dell 14 days satisfaction period.

but i think replacement, are generally less quality then the 1st purchased one..

well depends on what counter strike version ur using. this intel x3100 cant even play far cry. it load far cry with ease when playing it doesnt hang for far cry but it cant produce the graphic in there..

no shadow or some sort of rendering... this x3100 also lags with the need for speed pro street...

u ll need a geforce card if u really wanna play games..

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Added on April 25, 2008, 11:03 pmu can opt for replacing it.. if its not nice then, just say u dont like the replacement and stick wit the old one..

This post has been edited by seale_navy: Apr 25 2008, 11:03 PM

the replacement will not be a refurbish one. they claim its new but we will never know dont we?. and there is no certainty that the replacement will be in good shape but mostly likely it will be in a good shape. most definite dont worry about it.

The lappy that u gonna have now, they gonna take it back and i dont know what are they gonna do with it really. they wont promise they replace until ur satisfy, I assure u that!!! if u wanna get another replacement after this one.. it might be a lil hard though...

as soon as u get the second replacement and u dont like it, they ll have to call and engineer on site to verify of what that u dont like about it. if u ever manage to get a 3rd replacement and still dont like it, it ll be hard to get another replacement...

well, i dont think u dont have to worry about it.. just keep using ur laptop. the replacement will be there like in a week.

u can always return it under the dell satisfaction policy and get bacl full refund and buy another xps back...

i think what u meant is the whinning sound of the intel core 2 duo. I thin this only happen for dell xps laptops. I didnt see this with the HP pavilio notebooks...

its normal at night if u here an *eee...eeee...eee* sound.. even most of the xps that come into my hands have such thing..

well if u return it, they will change for u a refurbish motherboard and the issue might not be solved as well. XPS produced on 21st Feb 2008 also suffer from the whinning sound like mine. but dell kinda have no solution for this..

i think dopod would be able to advise on this much further since he went all the way to get his motherboard revised by dell USA if im not mistaken.. give him a pm though...

yeah thats what i did. dell can try to fix ur motherboard, if there is still sound, they might chnage another one for u or if ur lucky a replacement.. if ur still not satisfy, they might offfer u a refund though..

yeah thats very lucky.. normally dell products are not consistence. if one were to complain why one lappy does not have sounc and etc and another ones does. they ll just ruled out that the lappy is build in compliance with dell guidelines.

and at that time, they ll offer anyone concern with a refund, or u can accept with that lappy.

xsean

what brand u planning to go for then?

yeah i think so its better that way, no point going through all the hassle again and if u opt for xps u might not have such a valid claim anymore because u have purchased it before if anything is not fine with the laptop...

macbook pro is good. I like the back lighted keyboard.. looks cool at night hehe... but i heard its a bit hard to msn in leopard cause the webcam driver doesnt really work with msn messenger for mac produced by microsoft...

though the is 3rd party application, but i think the colour wont be that nice..

yeah u can feel the heat a little its just slightly warm around 37 celsius or slightly higher at most on the palm rest...

hey..

i bet with u the hard disk brand is seagate right? . U know what dell will tell u.. they say the hard disk is normal...and not defective... the same issue with me. I got 2 units with seagate brand.. both also have tick tick sound..

even do nothing with the pc also got tick tick sound. download stuff.. it will go like tick tick tick... every few seconds..
i did post this issue up before in the old thread...

toshiba launch their new line of laptop... already... so those refunding can opt to get those.. it looks not bad..

This post has been edited by seale_navy: Apr 29 2008, 05:14 PM

haha what to do no money.. if not i would have opt for a better quality one hehe.. anyway my plan is sulk up with the xps 1330.. then after a couple of years use then buy a new one.. im not even working yet..

i did thought of getting a refund.. if i refund i dont knnow what t buy. i like smoething portable and not many notebook in the market like that are within my price range.. so thats why i stick with the xps hehe

yeah both of my seagate tick tick tick sound is a 160 GB with 5400 rpm

its like a clicking sound of the hdd not scratching where it clicks when the webpage is loading.. watching youttube,.. using bit torret..and etc...

it clicks randomly.. but frequently....

yeah mac service here suck big time..

yeah i think.. one day we shall all meet up.. gather out testimony and pursued an action of negligence misstatement action against dell. Definitely can win this case.. i am certain of this...

no u can actually.. i tried that before. because the factory will use whatever hdd stock that is available at that time, so we can ask dell to fix a certain brand for us...

yeah its very common.. all of us face the same issue. its a cant be solved issue actually..

i think the tick tick sound is from ur hdd. Is it a seagate brand? because normally seagate brand cause this sudden tick tick sound..

about the remote bring this issue up to dell and ask them why the remote is not working. they ll send u a new one by courier service or something..

This post has been edited by seale_navy: May 10 2008, 07:36 PM