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To: kaka who wrote (176174)	5/14/2009 3:14:50 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 176387

It's been a nice spring, tradingwise! Last fall I got lucky with a large position in SNDK, bought two days before Samsung offered to buy them for 26 bucks a share. Dumped around 21 and change the day after the offer was announced, and I thank my lucky stars because the stock then went from 22 to 5 after the offer was withdrawn and the market meltdown began. Lately trading the long side has been spectacular, with many stocks going up 200-300 percent, but the bulk of that is over for now IMO, and perhaps this is nothing more than a strong bear market rally. Retail sales nothing to write home about, so we shall see. Regards, John

To: kaka who wrote (176174)	5/14/2009 3:18:54 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Yeah, I saw that - how the mighty have fallen. Mikey has been in there for awhile now, but nothing earthshaking seems to be happening. Whenever I hear him it's the typical 'corporatespeak' about taking care of his customers, while the complaints about Dell customer service keep rolling in... Regards, John PS - Of course there have been some rumors about a Dell cellphone - uh, would that be a Dellphone??? <ggg> They better hope that works out better than the Dell DJ Ditty...

To: kaka who wrote (176174)	5/17/2009 12:49:07 PM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 176387

<<Acer passed DELL as the number two notebook maker in market share in Q1>> No surprise here. I bought an Acer 890-6306 laptop from Newegg.com this past December and it just destroys both of my Dell Laptops (1520 and 1737) in performance: newegg.com I would never buy another Dell again. Customer service is pathetic and vicious. Back in December, my grandson accidentally spilled a cup of diet orange soda on my desk destroying my Dell 1705 laptop. I had 3 year accidental coverage with Dell for this so I sent the laptop in for repair. After about 3 weeks, I went online, to check the status of my repair and was informed that my laptop did not exist anymore. When I called Dell's outsourced Tech support, I was told that my laptop was not made in the USA and was quickly transferred to Dell Tech support in France and then Canada. Whenever I called Dell's outsourced Tech support to inquire about the status of the repair, they just hung up on me like I was a piece of garbage. About a week later, a Dell 1737 studio laptop unexpectedly came from Fedex. My chip was upgraded from 2.0 Centrino to 2.4, my graphics card went from a Nvidia 8600 to a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 and more importantly, I now had an HDMI port. I have the Dell 1737 laptop hooked up to a Samsung T240 HD via HDMI), which I use as a computer monitor and HDTV: newegg.com I only have nice things to say about this Samsung LCD HDTV. The display is gorgeous and thanks to this cheap "budget TV antenna" I bought from Radioshack, I now get 74 free over the air digital channels, many of which are in 1080i format: radioshack.com Recently, I played a Blu-Ray movie and the display was magnificient. The slight problem I've had is whenever I instantly switch from computer monitor to HDTV and then back to computer monitor again, the Dell 1737 loses the signal and HDMI sound output goes silent. I only get the sound back (via HDMI) when I reboot or when the Dell 1737 and Samsung wake up from sleep mode. I know this is a Dell problem because I do not have this problem when I hook up my Acer 8930-6306 to the Samsung T240 HD. The fact of the matter is that Dell makes an inferior laptop in comparison to Acer and Asus.