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

Hang: Left alone too long

Had to reboot (as always, using a long-press on the power button) after I left the Dell alone for 20 min to make a call. Outlook, firefox were up, but the Dell had gone to standby while connected to power. No idea what caused it, but returning from standby hung before i had the keyboard up.

This might be related to my habit of hitting caps-lock to watch for a flickering light to tell me when the Dell has come back (Mac takes 2-3 seconds after opening the cover before it’s usable, from full sleep, so even 10 seconds seems like 3x too long).

All work lost, but at least it was near the start of the day.