Latitude 5540

To be fair, I get brand new Dells right out of the box with failed trackpads (no click, stuck, etc.) and that's one or two out of each batch of ~15 devices. I've had just one FW with that problem. My last company had the Latitude (5540?) line that had every single battery swell to bursting open the

I am getting the opposite problem. I needed to replace the adapter for the Latitude 5540 laptop. I ordered the 100-watt adapter directly from Dell, as it is the replacement part connected to the Service Tag. They screwed up the shipment by sending only the power cord. Now, they refuse to send me a r

Hmm. Rugged at/above 15-inch appears to be fairly rare. Also, Lenovo doesn't make this style of machine and never really has as far as I know, outside of historically claiming the basic T-series was good enough for this work. (There's no ThinkPad today I would classify in this genre.) If your employ

The issue is that in my case it's intermittent and when I first got it one year after the purchase the User Manual had nothing on the problem. Now they updated the manual and say it's a "Processor failure": https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/latitude-15-5540-laptop/latitude-5540-owners-manua