About six months back I bought a dell Inspiron 9400 laptop with 17" Wide-Aspect screen with the resolution 1920x1200, 2GB Ram, 2GHz Core Duo Processor with complete cover for one year. I felt the power of it and was very happy.
Not even a month had passed, suddenly the display failed.
I was given two options
Get a replacement for the entire machine, but have to wait for a week
Get the LCD display replaced with in two days
I took option 2 because I can't wait for a week and did not want to re-install all over again. Then every thing back to normal
Later I started hearing about Core 2 Duo and its benefits against my Core Duo
I felt sick again, I should have waited little longer :(
I was upset because It will take a very long time to get another chance to change my machine.
But like all my deepest desires, this also CAME TRUE. Yes I'm writing this using my Core 2 Duo machine :)
Here is how it happened
Last month display started to give another kind of problem, flickering lines running across specific color regions
I captured those hardware generated flickers using my Nokia 6670 (I have another story to share about my mobile, later) and emailed the video to dell customer care
Even though they suggested to get it serviced, I wanted to replace the machine this time. Also I wanted to change the processor to Core 2 Duo and get a better graphics card
Customer care guy told me that Refund may be possible but I may loose 20 to 40% of money in the process. I stood by my point and asked him to find out what is the exact amount I would loose
After talking to different people in dell for three days, finally they came up with a very positive answer. Since the machine has a defect they can refund all the money back. Which means I used a core duo machine for six months for free, and I got another chance to choose what I want in my machine
I bought new Inspiron 9400 with Core 2 Duo, with 100 GB HDD, XP media center edition with a TV tuner. Copied everything from the old machine. Then I returned the old machine
Update.Arul's Blog: Shockwave-india.com moved to another server.
Last week I moved the site to another server. During this time I've lost few comments added to the blog, and also some emails. If any of you sent a mail to me or left a comment and couldn't find it there, please send it again. Sorry for the trouble
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Thursday, November 30, 2006