They have good, basic design. They last forever and are easy to repair. They have everything you need, no extras, but nothing lacking.
They’re like the Platonic Ideal of laptops; you open it up and you don’t say “wow”, you say “Well, this sure is a laptop” – but that’s not an insult; that’s what makes them the perfect all purpose general laptop.
Curious to hear everyone’s thoughts and opinions :)
My work supplies us with Dell laptops. I have to put in a request for a new battery at least yearly.
Idk I’m kinda seduced by the frame.work laptops
The only thing that really keeps me from wanting a Framework 16 is there not being a TrackPoint keyboard available…
Ah but that’s the beauty of a framework laptop! You can buy one now, and should one be available in the future you’ll (probably) be able to just buy a new keyboard module and slap it in lol
Did I find someone finally using this ? I don’t mean to be rude but I always found that rather silly, I’d be glad to hear how you’re using it though
I think it’s more accurate and less fatiguing than using the track pad. Scrolling especially feels way better, even compared to two-finger scrolling on a track pad.
That is a overgeneralization considering dell has many budget laptops that are not that well built.
And several high end laptops that are not that well built.
Laughs in ThinkPad
They last forever and are easy to repair
This might not always be true, like how you can’t replace with a third party battery in some cases. I don’t know enough about Corollas to know if that helps or hurts the analogy
I had an Inspiron 14 7460 that was an absolute PoS from the outset. It went through two mainboard replacements within 6 months and even then the USB ports on the right side stopped working after about a year.
On top of that, the battery pack was pretty much useless after two years, which meant I has to constantly have it plugged in in order to use it, and the fans would kick in any time I did anything more intensive than opening an Excel spreadsheet.
It wasn’t a cheap model either - I paid about $800 for it.
I love Dell’s monitors, but I won’t be buying another of their laptops any time soon.
We still have hundreds of Latitude 5570s deployed at work and other than the occasional battery failure they’re really rock solid.
It’s a shame they don’t support Windows 11.
We had Latitude 7480s which also didn’t support Windows 11.
I purchased my old one for a steal and it’s now running fedora quite happily.
One businesses loss has been my gain.
It’s a shame that Windows 11 doesn’t support them!
My only complaint with Dell is they use shit fans that sounds like jet engines.
This really only applies to their (for the most part anyways) business/premium lines
Their consumer/budget lines…are shit
However, still better than HP that’s for damn sure, business, premium, budget, prosumer doesn’t matter with HP it’s all crap.
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I’m not sure about today, but my school had the Optiplex 760 line like 15 years back, and those things were rock solid. I wouldn’t be surprised if those units, and their accompanying black keyboards and 1280x1024 monitors, were still around somewhere today.
Newer optiplexes are the same.
Even the small ones can easily be opened, remove the fans, RAM, SSD, all without a tool.
The only problem they have (including the model you shown) is that they use a proprietary 5-pin fan connector.
Have to disagree we got the Vostros in work and around 10 of them have had the hinges come away from just normal opening.
Thinkpads would quality too. I don’t know about the latest models, but I had a few T440, T470, those were unbreakable.
Latest models suck. I have a T15p and it’s garbage.
Sad to hear.
Depends on the product line I think
Except the ones with the non-removable CMOS batteries.
Compaq cousin.
Compaq built by HP was utter trash. At least the handful Compaq laptops I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with.
I have a Dell XPS through work that still runs like a dream after nearly 6 years of daily use. However it’s worth noting that every single other person in my office who had one of that same laptop has had to get it replaced by now because of SpicyPillow related issues. Mine is the only one that never had thermal problems leading to battery expansion, and I suspect it’s because I keep mine on a laptop cooling pad almost always.
Replacing a battery in a laptop should be expected maintenance unless we are intentionally using them as disposable computers. 6 years of daily use on a laptop battery is pretty great.
The ones that had thermal issues did so like four years ago, so mine has far outlived the others in the stock our shop bought.
