Tag: hardware
Lenovo Tech Support
July 26th, 2010, 2 Comments
Dear Lenovo Technical Support,
If you direct a customer with a valid warranty to a local certified Lenovo service center instead of doing the ship-to-depot do-si-do, you should also inform the customer the service center is going to charge $90.00 to work on their laptop so said customer is fully informed of the consequences of their [...]
Dell’s sneaky case design
April 28th, 2010, No Comments
I unpacked a Dell T5500 today that I needed to install a GTX 285 GPU-capable graphics card in for one of my professors only to find that the card’s extra power connections interfered with the fold-down hard drive tray.
Dell’s case designs have been getting better and better over the years, but it looked like [...]
Monitor Envy
September 19th, 2009, No Comments
I’ve been using dual-monitor setups for something 6 or 7 years now. I got my first set at NIEHS when I worked there. I thought it would suck since I was moving from a single 21″ CRT to dual 19″ LCDs, but I quickly got used to it and really liked the additional real estate. [...]
I *heart* my T43
July 1st, 2008, 1 Comment
I love Thinkpad notebooks. Short of a Panasonic Toughbook, they are the most rugged notebook computers I’ve ever used. Yesterday, while traveling home from General Assembly, I stopped in the men’s room at the Atlanta airport. I hung my backpack on the hook on the door, turned away to do my thing, and heard my [...]
