3 dells down, Never again!

[kojack]

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.