{"id":942,"date":"2007-06-19T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/19\/dell-to-the-rescue-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:55:10","slug":"dell-to-the-rescue-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/19\/dell-to-the-rescue-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell to the rescue (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dell support person showed up at the house a couple of hours ago, replaced the power supply on Tonya\u2019s Inspiron 6000, and all is well.\u00a0 Thanks to Brad (Dell Online Community Outreach Liaison) \u2013 he helped arrange this support call.<\/p>\n<p>I have a couple of thoughts.\u00a0 First, if I did not have Brad\u2019s contact info, I would no longer have this laptop, and I would be a very bitter towards Dell.\u00a0 Thankfully, Brad found my first post about my recent mishaps with Dell, and he helped right the ship.\u00a0 Second, the next time I order a laptop, I will pay for an extended support warranty, which is something I never do for electronic equipment.\u00a0 In the case of this laptop, it has been well worth the money.<\/p>\n<p>All this begs the question, should a computer that is less than three years old have screen and power supply issues (and a used up battery) in the first place?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dell support person showed up at the house a couple of hours ago, replaced the power supply on Tonya\u2019s Inspiron 6000, and all is well.\u00a0 Thanks to Brad (Dell Online Community Outreach Liaison) \u2013 he helped arrange this support call. I have a couple of thoughts.\u00a0 First, if I did not have Brad\u2019s contact &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/19\/dell-to-the-rescue-part-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dell to the rescue (Part II)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}