h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So we get in these used Dell computers and I can't figure out how to open the darn things. Instead of blundering blindly ahead and breaking the plastic however, I turned to Google. Sitting there, I couldn't believe I was asking for help on how to open something that's right next to me from somewhere across the world. This is what I found:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/rrsff1.htm

I have never seen a computer case that opens like that before. It's an ingenious design however. I'm becoming more and more impressed with Dell. Even though I personally custom-build, I think I'm going to be recommending Dell to people who ask me for two reasons:

1. Their hardware works and has a somewhat decent track record, unlike HP.
2. Their stuff is built to work with anybody else's stuff - a win-win for both Dell and the consumer.
3. They were smart enough to put instructions for stupid people like me to figure out how to open their ingeniously designed new cases.
Nerd42

oh wait that's three reasons
Nerd42

I like that brand too.

*Nod* I use a Dell laptop because: a. they seem to leave a good (or at least decent enough for the likes of me/my day to day use) amount of space for later modifications or future upgrades,

and

b. It has an impressive shelf-life. , I mean that although some parts get replaced and occasionally add-ons are mounted or get attached to deal with newer kinds of peripherals (e.g. adding more USB ports because people use them more for things now than when it was new that type of thing), on the whole it's about 7 or more years old and for the most part still very much functional.

It was a hand-me-down but the even older one the person I got it from had was a Toshiba that was very obsolete in several functions and had only some of the drives still functional.

Which isn't to necessarily knock that brand because when cost counts I've heard things about Toshiba parts being cheaper sometimes than some of the other brands.
Not sure how accurate that is because it was based on here-say mainly.