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Re: [privacy] 93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:50:40 -0400
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:58:26 PDT, Andrew said:
Yikes - what brand and model so I can steer clear?
Dell Latitude C840 - it's actually held up quite well under 4 years of pretty heavy abuse. I replaced the hard drive a few months ago because it was starting to develop bad blocks (many of those were self-inflicted - you do enough kernel hacking, you end up resetting by nuking the power on occasion. This gets you a runt block on the disk if a write was in progress, and once in a while it became a permanent bad block that couldn't be rewritten). I've also managed to wear out several sets of batteries in 4 years (doing kernel compiles while on battery will do a good job of deep-draining them :). The only other problem I've had was the cooling fan - it developed a bad bearing. Unfortunately, the 2 connectors for the wiring for the fans were surface-mount soldered onto the motherboard - and came off entirely rather than unplugging. Would have been only 2 tear-downs (one actually) if I had just said "screw it" and swapped the motherboard right off - but a serious attempt was made to repair the motherboard - which generated several cycles of "Does it work *now*?" (final count - 6 leads were broken, 5 were repaired, last one evaded me though so we ended up swapping the motherboard). Overall, I've been happy enough with this Dell that its replacement will likely be another Dell Latitude - the D820 is looking good....
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