Dell accused of knowingly selling faulty PCs

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Dell accused of knowingly selling faulty PCs

Documents reveal prior knowledge of faults

Agam Shah

Dell has been accused of selling thousands of desktop PCs despite knowing the machines contained faulty components, according to recently unsealed court documents.

Dell shipped around 11.8 million OptiPlex computers between the May 2003 to July 2005 period that were at risk of failing because of the faulty components, according to the unsealed court and internal documents. Dell sold OptiPlex desktops to companies and business customers in the US including Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo.

The problems stem from bad capacitors on motherboards. which could cause systems to fail. The documents also say that Dell employees knowingly tried to play down component problems, which put customers at risk

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