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Since all of my Dells pooped the bed, we are moving to lenovo for our prebuilt machines. Rock solid from what I understand. I am going with a P1 Gen4 16 inch. The wife will probably get a 920 for her desktop machine and a T490 or something for her laptop. I am removing the dell parts from my desktop as well. Moving to a new full sized atx mobo, case and PSU to give me the option to run a second 2070 super and a video capture card (elgato pro). Or since it will be linux, everything works faster so maybe I will put the second video card on the side burner and put a multi ssd card in there and have blazing fast storage. there are so many ways I can go. ha ha. Great choice on the Lenovo. The only laptop to buy

So right now I have three dead Dell systems in our household for major component failures. My 5406 died yesterday morning. It was having issues for months and I thought it was software because it was only at start up. Once running it was fine. It was the ram sockets and they died. Just before the failure my battery swelled so much it caused the touchpad to stop working. One system down. Pulled the good parts and tossed it. Next up my mother called me and said her dell inspiron 15 shat the bed. I go have a look, sure enough no post, no nothing but system was still hot when plugged in. Mobo/graphics failure. Pulled the good parts and tossed it. Third was my wife's dell. Hardly used but have to mess with it constantly to try to get it to boot. Again, once booted (30 min or more screwing with it) it's fine and it works, but I am sure its going to stop functioning all together sooner than later. It will boot one in every 15 to 20 tries, other than that it just sit there no lights no screen flashing NOTHING. It like it has zero power. Then after messing with it for a while it will fire up and work. Never again will Dell get a dollar of our money as a family. I have my mom moved to two new Acer laptops I purchased for her and we are moving to Lenovos. Solid thinkpad laptops that are well built. Unlike the crap from Dell.

Not the case apparently. So, I had no idea that there was an event logger in my bios. I don't know how I missed it. It reports a memory slot failure every time I boot and have issues. Therefore, the MOBO is done. A new one from dell is 949 cdn. NO thanks. I can get a year newer Lenovo P1 gen 4 with great specs for only 850 shipped to my door. I am back on my little dell iPad replacement now running Zorin. I will be loading Zorin 18 pro on whatever system I get because I am just sick of the bloat with windows. I get all the functionality of my windows systems, even running the same software now, and it's twice as fast on the same hardware. The iPad will be moved to my son, and I will get a new Android tablet for on the jobsite work like floorplan/esitmating/inspection software I use. We will see how it goes.

We traded our 2015 Jeep Patriot that was costing us 1000 bucks every time it went to get an oil change because of other stuff breaking, on a 2017 Mazda 5. We love these cars and owned a 2007 model we purchased brand new. The 5 is the perfect rig for travel with lots of room but still handles like a little sports car. Some cool mods coming for it soon..

Yes, get her started with linux right away so that she know freedom and not locked into a corporate money grab.

Just got Zorin 18 pro for our systems. BUH BY MicroSlop! No more corporate bull on our pc's.

The next one is the orange colorway turns pink after some exposure to the sun. That's awesome, it's like a hypercolor phone. Those who don't know, look up hypercolor shirts.

Funny how peoples experiences differ. My Pixel 8 Pro is the best most reliable phone I have owned. I have owned mobiles all the way back to this guy.

Another update on my dell systems. AFAIK, it's fastboot causing the issues. I was on another forum with people who have up to date dells, and have been having these same issues. They turned off fastboot and it stopped. Crossing my fingers.

I have had my fair share of giant laptops. acer 7720, HP DV9, etc. Moved to small and light with my acer timeline SE. then with the dell systems.

If I went ProArt it would be the 13 inch model. The 16 is too big and heavy for travel. Great system. I have got some new advice on my dells. I have run the hardware test and everything tested fine. But then someone suggested turing off fast boot in the bios. I will do that on all the systems and see if it helps things. I have my main laptop back again for right now. The iPad is right beside me incase this stops working again though. ha ha.

Back on the iPad again. The notebook issues came back. I am done with it and dell, since, like I said, 3 dell laptops we own have the same issues. I will use the iPad as my laptop/notebook and use my desktop when I need heavy lifting….for now. I don’t know what I am going to buy as of right now, nothing on the windows side of devices are catching my eye besides the surface laptop or the asus proart. Get ready iPad. You will be worked hard. Now to make sure I have the software I need on this thing.

Funny, I moved from my iPhone to my Pixel for the exact same reason. Missed notifications and calls on the iphone constantly. Dropping service, calls etc for multiple mins at a time until a restart. Apple said it's fine. Meanwhile my Motorola g 5g worked fine in the same spots I was dropping service in the iPhone.

My dell laptop fired up and had a bunch of updates from intel for it. Knock on wood, I have not had an issue since. I am crossing my fingers that the updates fixed the display issues I was having. I hope, as I don't want to go buy a new system right now. I would rather use what I have and be happy. I plan on getting a portable egpu to boost video encoding speeds, but other than that I am fine with my dell and iPad 10th gen if this works out. My iPad will be my inspection and management device. My workstation will be my main editing system and my current dell notebook with egpu plugged in will be my on location editing system. I hope it stays reliable now.

I have one for my work station phone for scanning ids etc. I agree its a great phone with little fuss. I charge it once every 3 or 4 days. We don't use it much but I like it better than the iPhones at the other stations.