Posted: 8/15/2011 6:18:38 PM EDT
| I ordered a laptop from Dell and it gave me an est shipping date of the 31st and I was hoping to get it before I went off to school.. I paid extra for the 2 day shipping, I'm guessing thats considering how busy they are with orders etc? Anyone have exp with their shipping date estimations? |
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Quoted: It took about 2 weeks from the date I purchased it till it arrived at my doorstep. I had a couple small customizations on mine. Bought one back in may and that sounds about right. Other than my wife trying to learn Vista after being on XP for so long it's been a good rig so far.  |
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I ordered a laptop from Dell... FAIL lol...
I bought a Dell for my first college laptop... biggest waste of money ever. I have an ASUS now ($800) and I like it more than my MacBook Pro computer for work. Don't fall into the "Macs are better" unless you're into AV stuff. Anything else and you're just limiting yourself and spending extra money on a shiny desktop. |
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The last Dell we bought, about 4 years ago, was shipped from either Singapore or Taiwan. We bought a Compaq last year and it was shipped from one of those places too. If I'm not mistaken Dells are assembled in Round Rock. I thought so too. I thought all of the Austin/Round Rock production shifted to Tennessee and North Carolina. Then some of it got shifted to Taiwan. Here is one piece of the puzzle: http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2009/03/09/daily26.html Then nearly all of their production got shifted to Taiwan after Tenn. and N.C. shut down. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xlica9JFsqcJ:allthingsd.com/20091008/dell-4/+dell+carolina&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com |
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I ordered a laptop from Dell... FAIL lol...
I bought a Dell for my first college laptop... biggest waste of money ever. I have an ASUS now ($800) and I like it more than my MacBook Pro computer for work. Don't fall into the "Macs are better" unless you're into AV stuff. Anything else and you're just limiting yourself and spending extra money on a shiny desktop. Same here, the first laptop I bought was a Dell Inspiron 4000 back in 2001. Had three service technicians come out for various reasons. LCD backlight went out, shorted USB port, then the power port broker internally. The motherboards had a small tab the power port was attached to. A little too much movement and bam, no more charging battery. I ended up getting a dock/port replicator to use the damn thing because by the time the second port broke free it was out of warranty. It had terrible hinges on the screen, worked loose too soon. I will give them this much though, they have good customer service. I bought a ASUS for my second notebook and it is the best built notebook I have used so far barring the new Apple Macs. Excellent screen, much better than my current Acer. Both the Acer and ASUS were well made and had great features for the price. Haven't had a issue with either yet. |
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I used to work in product development for Compaq, so I know a couple of things about laptops and how they are made.
First off all laptops (ALL BRANDs) are made over seas, fact of the matter there are only 4 or 5 factorys that build all of the laptops. Yes that means a factory that is building your Dell laptop on one line will be building HP laptops on the line right next to it, and gateways on the next line and so on and so on. Once you laptop is completed it will be shipped buy air to the US then it will ship to in what ever means you paid for. Simple fact is paying for the 2nd day delivery really does not buy you much in reducing the wait. But it is a nice way to increase the profit of that unit.
As for which brand is better . . . . . .It really does not matter. While the model/brand may look a little different from each other they are all using parts made by the same sub contractor that are assembled in the same factory's. The brand name is not the problem, it's what you shove inside a laptop. The more stuff, and the more speed you try to stuff in a small laptop case means more heat. Heat is the the killer of laptops, that is what kills a laptop for the most part other then dropping it 
With that said enjoy your laptop, do what you can to keep it cool by making sure is has good air flow all around it, and try not to drop it 
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The last Dell we bought, about 4 years ago, was shipped from either Singapore or Taiwan. We bought a Compaq last year and it was shipped from one of those places too. mm If I'm not mistaken Dells are assembled in Round Rock. You are mistaken. The Round Rock plant has been closed for a couple of years with most of the blue collar workers laid off. The office portions of the buildings still house white collar workers (marketing, finance, etc). Once the tax incentives Dell used to build their factories in Central Texas ran out they shut them down and moved production to factories in North Carolina and Tennesee where they had new tax incentives or directly to China. FWIW, very little other than the final assembly (like putting in memory, hard drives and loading OS) of a few of Dell's high end products is done in the US at all anymore. Most of their products are built almost completely in China (or other pacific rim countries) by subcontractors like Foxconn. That is why a lot of their stuff is now shipped directly from there to customers now, it is cheaper and they don't have to warehouse stuff. |