So, after 4 days of no one calling me back to inform me what the status of the order was (no order was showing placed online @ dell.ca), I called them and told them to pound sand.

4 days of wasted time, while no one would return my calls, or even answer an email that I had sent.

Dell, you can kiss my rosy red ass, right in the brown puckered part.

Worst service ever.

So, the Compaq fiasco has led me to the decision of purchasing a new laptop.

I’ve come to the conclusion in my head, that two dead disks in 16 months is more likely a hardware problem with the laptop, than it is bad luck.
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My laptop died a spectacular death the other night.

Everything on it was working mostly fine,but I had decided that after playing with xubuntu, on my EEE PC for the last few weeks, that I wanted to give it a go on the big beast.
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So…

I jumped on the Eee PC Bandwagon about a week ago, and bought a black 701 series.

For those that have no idea what I am talking about, the Eee PC is, simply the smallest fully functioning laptop that I have ever laid my hands on. Let’s get the specs out of the way.
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I’ve bought a couple new toys recently, here’s the skinny.

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So, I got adventurous last night and installed the Gutsy Gibbon Beta on my laptop. The hard disk that came with the machine had died, and I have replaced it with a new 7200 RPM Seagate job, so a reinstall was needed anyway.
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