Dell’s Practical Joke switch

I learned about this switch today, a hilarious joke from Dell! The switch is located on the side so that sometimes when you slide your laptop in your briefcase, it slides to the off position.

The result for you is no wireless internet until you go crazy and call support. They will (probably) play around with you for a bit until bursting out in laughter and confessing that they’ve played this practical joke on you.

The brilliantly funny part is that no amount of software configuration, restarting, bios upgrades, driver installs will get you out of your misery untill you flip the hardware switch.

If the switch wouldn’t have broken off while I was frantically banging my laptop against the walls in despair, I would have never known it was there…

Nice one, Dell