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by BizarroLand 1129 days ago
Even if that's the case the damage is done.

I still tell people about capacitor plaque and how we should have class actioned Dell out of existence over it

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Why Dell specifically? Wasn’t all hardware that bought the cheaper capacitors affected?
Because they were the most well known of the affected companies and they didn't really do much to repair the goodwill the issue cost them.

Sure, they "put up $300 million for repairs" according to https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/dell..., but I bet the lions share of that went to their largest purchasers, so the people who blew their school's IT budget on Dell computers were just SOL.