Dell Accused of Concealing Evidence in PC Suit

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Advanced Internet Technologies filed a motion in Federal District Court in North Carolina asserting that Dell had deliberately violated a court order by failing to produce documents written by its executives, including the company’s chief executive and founder, Michael S. Dell.

The filing is the latest twist in a three-year-old lawsuit brought by A.I.T. that accuses Dell of selling at least 11.8 million faulty PCs over three years and then trying to hide problems with the computers from customers. A.I.T., an Internet services company, says it lost business as a result of the broken Dell machines.

Dell disputes the accusation. “We disagree with A.I.T.’s contention that we violated the discovery order and will be filing our response with the court soon,” said David Frink, a spokesman at Dell. “We take all court orders and our obligations to comply with them very seriously.”

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The problems with Dell’s OptiPlex business PCs were part of an industrywide dilemma caused by so-called bulging capacitors. The capacitors cost just a fraction of a penny each and helped control the flow of electricity to various computer components. Bad batches of these capacitors burst at their seams when they overheated, leaking fluid that caused further problems with electronic components. (Put cheap shit in, pay the piper later.)


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/technology/13dell.html?_r=1&hp

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Somebody wore Politically Correct attire and hid evidence in it?

Sorry. I'm weird like that. I'll go away now.

[DainBramaged]

2. It's OK.....LOL

:hi:

[Confusious]

3. I had one of those motherboards

It took a couple of years for the electrolytic to dry up and then our computer started acting weird,

It wasn't a Dell though. Got the board from a manufacturer. Haven't bought the same brand of board since.

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5. It was a bad time for the manufacturers

they all thought paying less than a cent for Chinese aluminum capacitors instead of japanese copper caps was worth the risk.


Now they know better. (I hope)

[Confusious]

4. D d d d dup