Not single spies, but in battalions...

[desperance]

I have spoken to the nice computerman. He has a speculative diagnosis - a circuitboard directly behind the power button, that is unique of course to Dell - and so we have to wait for parts to be flown in from Ireland before he can test it out, and it'll be the back end of next week, and aaargh.

I confess, I don't quite know what to do now. Find a way to work sensibly on the laptop, I suppose. Impulsively buying a new desktop this afternoon would be ... impulsive. And extravagant. And other things equally bad. *nods*

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[dedbutdrmng.livejournal.com]

Is it one of those oval shaped dells? They nearly tempted me with those when I bought my laptop.

The parts thing and one conversation with their customer service centre stopped me buying Dell. I've grown to love my laptop. It tells me the outside temperature, I realise this isn't a massively important feature but I find it oddly pleasing.

It's cold out.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Honey, it's cold in.

Not a pretty oval Dell, just a reg'lar box. But I was fond of it. Till now.

I wouldn't know where to go if I didn't buy Dell. Loyal to a fault, to several faults; I've been with 'em since their very early days, way back in the '80s. I think this is the first machine to develop a hardware problem, so I've not done badly. But, oh glory, I could be living without it.