[Cialug] Laptops

[David Champion]

I recently got a Dell Latitude 5530 from their refurb outlet for about 50%
of the retail price. I got on chat with a rep and he gave me an additional
$100 off the listed price without prompting. The 5530 is the bigger 15"
screen, but has 2 m.2 nvme slots if you want to have a lot of storage. I
removed the stock 250gb drive and put in a 1TB drive, which cost about that
$100 amount.

I like the laptop a lot. The smaller 14" model is very similar but only has
1 nvme slot, which shouldn't be a problem for most people.

Have had several Dell and Lenovo laptops (one of my favorites was the
Thinkpad X230). As long as you stick with the business line, and not the
retail models they're both pretty good.

-dc


On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:21 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:08 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm exactly the opposite, I've fewer problems with Dell than Lenovo and
> > HP.   As far as problems go starting with the least number of problems,
> > it's Dell, Lenovo and HP in that order.
>
>
> I've heard other people say that as well, so there must be something to it.
>
> But for myself, like I said, I've never had a problem with a Lenovo and
> haven't heard of any persistent problems that co-workers had. My current
> job uses Dell, though, and I had problems from the get go, enough that they
> eventually replaced my laptop. Three others on my team have nothing but
> problems. Crashes when using Teams, random restarts overnight, halts boot
> in UEFI, etc, etc, etc. Thank goodness my replacement doesn't have those
> problems.
>
> Of course, part of the problem is likely that IT at this job can't settle
> on a single model. Every single one of us has a different model Dell.
>
> --
> Todd
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