New laptop for work. Need suggestions.

[ViPER1313]

Just got a new work laptop.

The only Dells Ive used that havent been flaming piles of shit have been the Precision series. We took some into DoD field training exercises years ago and pounded on them in dirt and dust and they did great.
So even after several flaming turd Dell laptops I figured Id give the Precisions another chance, main reason being the Dell workstation laptops are MUCH cheaper than the HPs.

and Dell sucks yet again. apparently $5k wont even buy you a good laptop from Dell. :finger:
The screen frequently has a bad flicker, every time the laptop goes idle it loses the connection to the external monitor, wont reconnect to it unless I turn the monitor off and plug it into a different port (or sometimes must reboot). my coworker's has the same model and it has bluescreened several times, and has build quality issues with a bulging keyboard and sticky keys.
:bootyshake: to dell.

Have you tried installing the latest drivers from NVIDIA and Intel's sites directly for the video card and motherboard? Running the latest BIOS? Most display problems like those are due to bad drivers.

EDIT2: If you don't know how to update drivers and the BIOS on a PC, you should probably just go buy a Mac. Most PC manufacturers push stuff out to the market that is not 100% without an easy update or 2. I don't really hold this against them because the hardware is 2 years ahead of what Mac uses (because they wait for everything to stabilize and are very stringent so far as hardware and driver configs go). I rarely get hit with this flakiness because I always keep stuff up to date :dunno:

EDIT: My Dell Vostro is still working great, just figured I would throw that one out there.