Recomputed

[davidgillon]

I noticed last night I had a new email from Dell, sent at 10AM, so anyone working might well not have seen it 'til they got home.

Paraphrased: "We're delivering your PC tomorrow, and you need to be in between 8AM and 6PM. If you can't arrange it on short notice, tough."

I've seen better customer communication. In fact their courier managed to email me today with an hour slot (which they just  hit), but I didn't see that until afterwards.

So it arrived and is neat and looks like it will do the job. I ran through the physical set-up and pressed the on switch. At which point nothing happened, Once I stopped panicking, I looked around the back, and remembered to plug it in. Whoops. Windows set up was trouble free.

That 'scratch and dent' that got me £350 off the price? Teeny little scrape in the casing, probably less than a centimetre, and right on the back edge where no one will see ever it.

It's currently downloading and installing stuff, which is likely to go on for a while, even plugged directly into the net, as first I have to remember what I actually want to install.

I've played one XCOM2 game, and oh, XCOM2's graphics are a lot better than I thought from playing on my laptop. Lot smoother too, ahem..

Possible problems: Dell registration falls over. The Dell support tools say there are 253 days left of the 1 year warranty, and that that expires on 1/8/18, having started on 30/4/17. What!? More worryingly, I can't see any sign in the system specs that the 32GB SSD is fitted. Dell may well find themselves answering some awkward questions.. On the actually a positive side, no sign of McCaffee, which supposedly has a year's subscription included, which means I didn't need to delete it prior to installing Kaspersky, for which I have a multi-device subscription.