BEFORE YOU BUY A DELL

Im a university student. Purchased a dell laptop in 2014 from makro. Since then, ive had FOUR hard drive failures. One failed by simply placing the laptop on my bed, and the rest failed whenever i switched on the laptop. I also have a older samsung laptop that ive had for 6 years without a single fault. Ive lost numerous photos, notes, assignments due to this. Further, dell refuses to acknowledge there is an issue with my laptop and want R1000 to sort out the issue. I have spend half the price of the unit in repairs. <br> <br> Its no wonder they dont respond on here, look at the number of complaints. Im disappointed / frustrated with dell. This laptop is worth next to nothing now and im expected to fork out R1000 to repair a recurring fault once again, expectedly this hard drive will fail too. <br> <br> Looks like im selling this laptop as dirt and going back to my samsung still going strong from 2009. <br> <br> Based on my experience, before you purchase a dell, please consider their horrible after sales services as evidenced by numeros posts on here and their unwillingness to respond.<br> <br>