Just read this article and it kinda surprise me that OEM did not learn the lesson from the Lenovo incident. Any thoughts about this?
I've never been a huge Dell fan anyways, same with Lenovo. I think it's because in junior high like 90% of the students in the school's laptop program bought IBM's through the school and they were complete pieces of junk. Luckily my dad decided to buy me an HP from OfficeMax with similar specs and like half the price. I got a Dell Studio 17 for my HS graduation present and it had a bad hard drive pretty much straight out of the box. It was probably just a lemon, but it left a bad taste in my mouth with Dell. On top of that, like every work computer I used while in the navy was a Dell, so that makes me dislike them even more.
My thoughts? Meh. I just won't buy a Dell. That's super sketchy, and I'm not going to support a company who knowingly, or even unknowingly, does stuff like that.
If they knew about it that's completely screwed up.
If they didn't know about it they seriously need better quality control.
They better keep that shit off the Latitudes, well all computers really, but especially the Latitudes.
A patch and a statement has been released:
Thankfully my signature edition XPS 13 doesn't have this vulnerability.
Latitude & Precision models are just fine, the cheaper variants have varied between 'no worries, easy to change stuff out' (RAM, HDD) to 'are you friggin' kidding me - like models where you literally have to dismantle the whole thing to swap the HDD for something half-decent :)
Had D610, 630, some E74xx I think and now the M4800 (which is too heavy but I do have 3x 1TB SDD and 32GB RAM, which is nice).
This thing was imaged by my company, so I am probably getting monitored anyway :p
It now can be removed.......
Hey and they said they were sorry, that makes it all ok...lol
Its dell what did you expect LOL