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Provide extra small rubber feet for your laptops.

670 points posted to Laptops by jmxz 07/11/07

Yesterday a group of us were joking that all 3 of us had three-footed Dell laptops.
The guy with a mac had no such problem.

This is an annoyance to your customers and embarrassing to Dell.

It's been pointed out elsewhere that your small rubber feet on your notebooks fall off easily.
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/70965/Smaller_rubber_feet_that_dont_fal...
Until you can fix this, please supply a few extra small rubber feet when you ship your laptops so people can replace them.

Also - since this is such an annoying defect and makes Dell laptops look almost laughable when they wobble in a business meeting; please send extra rubber feet to any of your existing customers who send you a self-addressed stamped envelope asking for some.

dmcellphone
07/11/07		 Absolutely! I've lost tons of those feet just by regular light use
johnpro
07/11/07		 I have and IBM thinkpad and it doesn't have this problem. It has much more robust rubber feet.
insllvn
11/16/07		 I think this idea goes hand in hand with another I have read about relocating cooling vents. (you can find that thread here http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62240/Laptop_Fans) I never understood why they are on the bottom, and I think that is part of the reason the feat are so prone to falling off. At least in my Inspiron, I noticed that the heat of the bottom of my notebook seemed to melt the glue securing the rubber feet. I think with a better secured set of feet and a retooled cooling system, Dell notebooks could be a thing of beauty and efficiency. I have to admit I was looking around at other manufacturers for my next portable machine, but the inclusion of a linux option has gone a long way towards bringing me back to Dell. Add these features (and maybe an SSHDD) and there will be no question where my next machine will come from! 8-D
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