Sunday, November 27, 2011

Things Wrong with my Windows 7/Dell

I have a Dell Windows 7 Laptop and I don't like it. Sluggish cheap plastic that wouldn't just go, like an Apple would.

  • Ignore my Control Panel setting to never ever lower the lights.
  • Spin endlessly on boot
  • Spin endlessly on Resuming Windows
  • Almost constantly doing Windows update, beg for reboot and then "configure"
  • Lameo touch pad - once you have used an Apple touch pad, you know how the touch pad can be done way better.
  • Harddrive cylinder light go cranking all the time
  • No integrated camera
  • Cheap plastic.
  • Can't be relied to burn DVD for data backup
  • SD card reader make no attempt to read my card sometimes - works instantly on my Mac.
  • No built in SSH client for 'telnet' like terminal - make people go download putty, psftp
  • No built in SSH client for file transfer - make people go download WinSCP and Filezilla


Windows 7 is still a miserable failure. Dell hardware no where nears the quality of HP hardware. Doubtful Windows 8 would be any better.

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