Venting: My Dell is Great!

I've used OSX for five years, and had a near-flawless experience (it failed once when my drive died). My Powerbook-G4 is five years old, and has dust from 9 countries (AU, CA, CN, GB, HK, ID, JP, KR, TH) in it. I reboot when the update makes me, and I've had to purchase very few additional components (such as virus checkers, SSH tools, email products, etc).

The Dell build quality, OS quality, integration, and general user-experience would not be so bad if I had not been using a Mac. I would have assumed that every PC did this, but now it highlights what's possible but obviously beyond the reach of Dell and Microsoft, even five years old.

This tumblr is merely to track the little things I need to do every day to get the Dell to work.

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Apr 9

Another Reboot

This reboot was a case of letting the Dell sleep while connected to power (hibernate deactivated), then waking it, logging in, and have it never ever show signs of having a keyboard connected, although the trackpad works until it re-activates the bluetooth stack. I’m not sure why it re-activates, since the bluetooth mouse works fine until it (re)starts bluetooth. This kinda feels like when your car is running, you hit the starter motor, it grinds, you blush, except rather than driving away with a shy chuckle, the car’s tires explode.