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Dell Outlet is great. IME if you pick a "Certified Refurbished" product the only way to tell it is refurbished is a refurbished sticker and it comes in a generic brown box. My current laptop is from Dell outlet and in 3 years the only issue I've had is a dead hard drive - Dell shipped out a...

Looking at the pages for the P2715Q and the U2715H and the footnotes associated with the warranties both seem to only discuss bright pixels. The page were made by marketing folks so it's possible the U2715H warranty not mentioning dead pixels is a mistake. I'm not trying to contradict you -...

It's quite odd these aren't in the U category as they have the same warranty as the Ultrasharps and the viewing angles/color specs are as good as monitors like the U2713HM. Sometimes the number of ports and features (e.g. built in USB 3.0 hub) are a differentiator, but even that doesn't seem...

I didn't mean to imply they turned off those features as a duplicitous way to hide lag. Features like the "One Handed Mode" shrunk screen could confuse just about anybody if they accidentally activated it in the store. I'm sure some of those are turned off just so people don't have a "WTF is...

The Note 4 is showing up in Best Buy. I played with one yesterday in the dedicated Samsung section. The phone hardware was really nice and felt like a flagship phone. Kudos to Samsung for realizing what a mess they made with the design of the S5 and fixing it. I played with the iPhone 6+...

People have already said this - buy from the Small Business portal. I've had great experiences with warranty issues on Dell Ultrasharps when purchased this way. Keep in mind, if it's not "Monitor is not working (or not working properly)" you'll likely have to call 2 - 3 times. One of my...

Phones are becoming like computers. No phone is going to wow you as the technology is maturing and improving by increments and refinements. 2014 is turning out to be a fairly dull year for phones so that isn't helping. Just like computers, it's usually some feature (and not the phone as a...

TW was okay on the S3 when the S3 was released. The 4.3 update ruined the phone. I get random lags all the time - even when putting in the pin on the lock screen. No amount of tweaking on the stock S3 ROM fixes it. 100% Agree. Walk into any phone store and compare the S5 to other brand's...

Sadly, this is exactly why I'm considering an iPhone for my next phone if the Nexus 6 has any major issues (e.g. terrible battery like the new Moto X). I don't even like the iPhone UI, but Samsung has seriously wrecked my opinion of non Nexus Android phones. Yes. Firefox Android is a POS...

IMO, the best thing about seeing this monitor is the feeling that we're finally going to see some major technical advancement in screens and the tech to connect to them (e.g. DP 1.3 will need to come soon to match these monitors). For such a long time displays completely stagnated. The last...

I'm really interested in this for work. I've never been very comfortable with dual monitors and single wide screen would be really useful for multiple applications. I agree that 21:9 seemed a little odd when I first heard about it, but I think it can be more practical than 16:10/9 in a work...

The company I work requires full device management + remote wipe, but no encryption. Lockscreen with PIN/Passcode is required - every other lockscreen is disabled. They provide the phones (individual employees order from AT&T) so nobody can complain too much. Yep. The company I work for...

I went through this debate recently. I have a S3 that works fine and in good physical shape. The G3 is the first phone I've seen that I actually feel would be a good replacement. My two biggest issues with the S3 are a) battery life and b) random lag/sluggishness. I'm not a heavy phone...

My office is full of Lenovo W530s and a lot of people are moving to Retina Macbook Pros + Windows VMs despite the fact that some key software we make (and use) is Windows only. At my office it's either Lenovo or Apple. Extremely glitchy graphics switching, stability problems, freezes...

My phone was fine until the 4.3 update. I've done the usual stuff (cleared cache, looked at the apps running, etc) but it's the same. Not that I have many background apps installed or running in the the first place. I did search through various forums and other people do have the same...