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    2 Motherboards and a Replacement Laptop

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by oic0, Jul 13, 2011.

  1. oic0

    oic0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok USB died on me. No longer power anything on. They sent a mother board and had it put in. Keyboard wouldn't work (honestly I think technician did the ribbon cable wrong, but I just let the warranty do its thing until I have a working laptop in my hands). Wait a while, new motherboard. This one has the same exact problem after it goes in, dead USB. Must be fairly common?
    Anyhow, they just sent me a new refurb laptop to replace mine (also a refurb). Not a bad deal though. They downgraded me on video card, dropped it down to the 525 from the 540 :( Upgraded it to a quad core, 750gb drive, blue-ray drive, and back lit keyboard, and bluetooth (all things mine didn't have). Fair trade off in my mind though I'm going to ask if I can keep the bigger battery from the 540 model before I send it back. I thought about fussing for all of the down time, but it wasn't really down time. The laptop worked, I just couldn't play any games because I was stuck with touch pad (no USB mouse and it was a bluetoothless model).
     
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    BobTheSniper Notebook Consultant

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    Did you upgrade from i5 to i7? Or i7 2620 to i7 Quad?

    I would totally raise a stink if you "downgraded" $-wise from i7 2620 to i7 2630. 525 is like only 12% worse than 540m.
     
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    oic0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    From I5 2410 to I7 2630.
     
    oic0, Jul 14, 2011
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    Then it sounds like a GIANT upgrade, like $300 worth.
     
    BobTheSniper, Jul 14, 2011
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