http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/ Engadget Comments for Qantas to Dell owners: Reveal thyselves! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
nono! they use standard 110v North American sockets]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
"It is often claimed, most notably in the 1988 movie Rain Man, that Qantas has never had a fatal crash. However, the company's official line is that it has never lost a "jet" aircraft. Prior to the jet era, Qantas had fatal crashes. One was on 16 July 1951, when De Havilland Drover VH-EBQ crashed in New Guinea after an engine failure, killing all seven passengers and crew. Other fatal accidents occurred in 1927, 1934, 1942, 1943 (×2), and 1944."

I guess they have had a few accidents in the last few years but from what I can tell no one died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas#Incidents_and_accidents]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/


with the exception of custard, which is the World's Only Perfect Substance.]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
Dell's got some sweet tech if they can pull that off.]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Since the latest Dell failures are due to internal cell shorts, it doesn't matter if the packs are removed from the notebook or not.
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I'm no fan of how Dell does some things, but Quantas is overreacting without reason. If they wanted to be realistic, they should ban all Sony notebook batteries with manufacturing dates prior to the recall, or ban all notebook computer batteries, as this issue is less likely with other Lithium-Ion batteries, but still possible.

This sounds to me like someone at Quantas has stock in Lenovo, HP or some other Dell competitor. Or, they're just a bunch of technically ignorant, overreactive luddites running an airline. (oh my!)]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
I'm no fan of how Dell does some things, but Quantas is overreacting without reason. If they wanted to be realistic, they should ban all Sony notebook batteries with manufacturing dates prior to the recall, or ban all notebook computer batteries, as this issue is less likely with other Lithium-Ion batteries, but still possible.

This sounds to me like someone at Quantas has stock in Lenovo, HP or some other Dell competitor. Or, they're just a bunch of technically ignorant, overreactive luddites running an airline. (oh my!)

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What you don't realise is that it is not the batteries themselves that are the issue, but the way in which they are installed and used in the Dell design that weakens them eventually leading to failure. I'm sure other manufacturers do use the same batteries, but the laptops they use them in are designed with either better insulation and heat disappation, or charge the batteries less agressively.]]>Aug 23rd 2006 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
*tear]]>Aug 23rd 2006 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=horrible+custard+factory+explosion+maims+local+man%3B+ruins+marraige&btnG=Search+News]]>Aug 23rd 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
also, had this been an american carrier, they probbaly would have banned all laptops.]]>Aug 23rd 2006 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004329,00.asp]]>Aug 23rd 2006 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
Snakes Dell Laptops on a plane

should be a pretty good film that!

G]]>Aug 23rd 2006 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
They don't innovate and compel people to buy on features.

Instead, they drive prices to the floor. The problem, as Dell is now figuring out, is to do this you have to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze parts supplier.

So finally parts supplies faced with anemic profit margins and no choice start cutting corners.

And dangerous parts get sold.

I am glad this is happening to Dell. It will send a message that there is a limit to how low you should go.

(And yes, I am a fan of the 100 laptop initiative and putting technology in everyone's hands. Especially the poor. Technology can be a ladder.)

But this is not Dell's purpose. And if they were serious about squeezing vendor costs, start with the copy of Windows. 50 bucks OEM price?

Windows should be 5 bucks, tops.

And take the additional 45 bucks and buy better components like batteries or spend some money on innovation that doesn't involve manufacturing efficiencies...]]>Aug 29th 2006 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 23rd 2006 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
those 14 hour la to sydney flights are now going to be a HUGE sea hunt!

ahhhhhhhhh i hate dell!
]]>Aug 23rd 2006 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 26th 2006 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/I thought the explosive properties of custard were well-known?

First hit on google:

http://www.big.uk.com/knowledgebase/shows/food_shows.htm

I've always meant to do this since I saw it on TV as a kid.]]>Aug 24th 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/Aug 24th 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/qantas-to-dell-owners-reveal-thyselves/
Fuck u Sony and Quantas]]>Aug 26th 2006 4:40AM