Zarathustra[H]
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So, I got a recent promotion on a Dell Inspiron 15 with a Skylake i3 at a price I couldn't refuse. It had only 4GB of RAM and a 1TB spinning harddrive, but I did some googling and it said they were upgradeable, so I thought, no problem, I can just get a second stick of RAM and stick one of my pile of SSD's in there, and it should be a decent little machine.
Are these people kidding?
My only experience with Dell laptops before this has been with Latitude D and E series laptops, and I was expecting the same, you know, a door in the bottom over the RAM slots and a slot on the side to pull out the drive. Was I ever mistaken.
A goddamned pile of tiny screws, removing the keyboard, and several flat cables later and I finally have the drive out.
There ought to be a law that all computers sold must have easily accessible doors to access RAM and hard drives. This is absolutely nuts. The only possible reason I can think of for designing this thing so badly is that they want to actively discourage self servicing, and just make people throw them out instead.
Shame on you Dell.
This is almost as bad as that one nightmare experience I had servicing an old discrete macbook pro...
Are these people kidding?
My only experience with Dell laptops before this has been with Latitude D and E series laptops, and I was expecting the same, you know, a door in the bottom over the RAM slots and a slot on the side to pull out the drive. Was I ever mistaken.
A goddamned pile of tiny screws, removing the keyboard, and several flat cables later and I finally have the drive out.
There ought to be a law that all computers sold must have easily accessible doors to access RAM and hard drives. This is absolutely nuts. The only possible reason I can think of for designing this thing so badly is that they want to actively discourage self servicing, and just make people throw them out instead.
Shame on you Dell.
This is almost as bad as that one nightmare experience I had servicing an old discrete macbook pro...