My Dell D820 broke yesterday a few months after the warranty expiration. There is a sadness associated with the moment your laptop is broke which cannot be explained. I had this feeling with this laptop 3 times already. I think the next question will be not: “which dell should I buy?” but rather “which laptop should I buy?” which is far more complicated. Anyway I realised in 11 years since I own Dell laptops most of the criteria for choosing one are the same:
- at least 1600x… resolution
- linux compatible
- no windows
- reasonably powerful/space/memory/gadgets for today standards
This time however I wish one which is lighter.
Update 2010-10-04: Finally the Dell support repaired my laptop even if it was out of waranty because of a known hardware problem which has generated a waranty extention. Quite a good news after all. Maybe I will still buy a Dell next time. More info on this waranty extension here.