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    9300 problems?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by X24, Jul 12, 2005.

  1. X24

    X24 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, my friend says i shouldn't buy from dell becuase of two reasons.

    1. he said their ram is crap

    2. he said its preloaded with spyware

    I tried to tell him that the ram would work, just not be name brand, and if it didn't pop down a few bucks and get urself some corsair, and then with the spyware i told him that its "bloatware" that 90% of places like dell hp gateway ect. ect. have it on there and u can uninstall it in a half an hour and be fine.


    please explain it better then i did so i can show him this.
     
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    1) I do think Dell uses poor RAM, but it should function fine for almost everyone. We have servers and the Dell RAM has failed several times on different servers. They also overcharge for RAm upgrades, so I'd get the minimum and upgrade with something else like Kinsgton or Crucial.

    2) He's confused. Manufacturers don't ship machines iwth malware installed. They might send them with crap software, but that's a different story. Dell is probably the worst in the industry in this regard, but almost everyone does it.
     
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