From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 21 16:56:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D293237B41A for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8433243; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:56:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24C55F6; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:56:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id QAA07128; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109212356.QAA07128@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: Randy Bush Cc: Denver Timothy , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony R505 Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:59:45 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:56:10 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randy Bush wrote: > i bought a dell. last week week while i was in taipei, some months after > getting the dell, it developed a common laptop problem, lcd color changes > etc. that could be 'fixed' by flexing of the cover/screen hings. this > monday, labor day, i called dell's support hotline. today, a tech came to > my house, yes you read that correctly, CAME TO MY HOUSE! and replaced the > lcd. As much as I like Dell, you've got to read the warranty (which may differ from system to system, or even from special to special). Not all of Dell's systems come standard with on-site service (I'm not sure if it's even standard on any system, except, perhaps, as part of a special offer). I think the usual warranty service is "mail-in service", not on-site. The on-site service comes with some of the extended warranties, which are usually an extra-cost option. Still, Dell's service is pretty darn impressive. One of the hinges on my Inspiron 7500 recently broke off (completely). The 7500 was still under warranty, but I had to go through the mail-in process. I called up Dell, and they gave me an account number and an Airborne Express phone number to call. I called up Airborne Express and arranged for them to pick up my laptop (I did not have to pay for shipping, either way). They came the next day, and provided a shipping box (I had to provide the shipping labels, as per Dell's instructions). Off it went, and I got it back, fixed, two days later. It didn't cost me a cent, although I did have to pull the hard disk, battery, RAM, etc.. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message