Finally, finally, after almost four months, I finally just dropped off my still non-functional laptop with Fedex this morning to be shipped off to a Dell depot for repair. Now, to be fair, the previous month of that was just me sitting on my ass because I was tired of fucking around with the whole rigmarole for the time being, but the rest of it was pure customer service bullfuckery. It took until almost the end of January before I finally got the
warranty bullshit straightened out. Or, rather, I suppose I should say that it took until near the end of January before anyone, from either Dell or NewEgg, deigned to inform me that the warranty bullshit was finally straightened out. For all I know, they could have had all that shit fixed just a day or two after the Dell guy told me they could not fix it.
Well, anyway, after a month of sitting around, since they finally fixed the warranty shit, I filed a support ticket with Dell last week, they sent me a box with a return label on Friday, and I loaded up my laptop and sent it back to them today. Hopefully all that is left is them fixing it and getting it back to me "in 7-10 business days" or however long it actually ends up taking, and there won't be any more bullshit for me to rant about.