I do notice a trend with low end Dell notebooks.....
Samsung nb replacement would be difficult in Malaysia.

Regards,
John Chung


--- SM Ling <sm.ling11@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > I am toying with the idea of getting a notebook
> > workhorse. Dell Precision M4300 looks interesting.
> > Lenovo T61 is another contender.
> 
> 
> I was recommending Dell to many few years back until
> my laptop failed just
> RIGHT-AFTER the 1 year warranty period expired.  And
> since had heard about
> failure of the same kind and the Just-In-Time
> failure from my friends.
> 
> Even I was desperate for a walkin repair for my
> laptop, but there was no
> physical repair shop in SG.  Dell took a week to fax
> back their official
> quote for a compulsory onsite repair.  Minimum is
> SG$200 onsite fee
> regardless if they can fix it, and as mine needed a
> board change the total
> was about SG$1700 almost the same price as a new
> laptop back then, and
> repair time of about 1-2 months.  But their fax spam
> and email spam started
> on the very day I asked for help, and still raining
> on me after 22 months.
> 
> Comparing to SamSung laptop I got from a trade show,
> it came with a 3 years
> warranty, a superb battery life and a local repair
> shop that took just 0.5
> day to swap my motherboard.
> 
> So consider getting a good deal from a trade show,
> with long warranty, and a
> LOCAL repair shop.  Especially so if you let your
> kids use your laptop,
> regardless of your instructions they will use it to
> play game and
> stress-test the keyboard/motherboard to the max.
> 
> Cheers, Ling SM
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