Dell stands behind their product and treats their customers well.
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PIII 700
Abit BM6
17" Viewsonic E773
Antec Gemstone Case
384 mb PC 100
Global Win FOP32
32 mb Gforce 2 MX
Sound Blaster Live!
2x 30GB IBM HDs
NEC FDD
Diamond Supra Max 56K
Kenwood True 52x CD-ROM
Plextor 12/10/32 CDRW
HP DeskJet 932c Printer
Windows 2000 Professional
Inwin Q500 FT
IWILL KK266
640 mb PC-100
Duron 1 Ghz
Gforce 4 MX 420
Mini Super Orb
Pioneer 16x DVD
Philips 24/12/40
Philips 107S 17" Monitor
Logitech Z-340s
Win XP Pro
I had a Dell for four years and never had any problems at all. Not only that your system is tweaked for high performance when it arrives. The technical support is amazing but the only downside is the large amount you pay for the computer.
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AMD TB @1000MHZ
256 MB PC-133
30 GIG MAXTOR[UDMA 100]
16X PIONEER DVD ROM
19" KDS[VISUAL SENSATIONS]
AMD TB @1000MHZ
ASUS A7V/133
256 MB PC-133
30 GIG MAXTOR[UDMA 100]
16X PIONEER DVD ROM
19" KDS[VISUAL SENSATIONS]
I hate all OEMs. I will never buy an OEM system ever again. Even the good ones will cut corners and still charge you up the butt. To get the features you need, you need to get 5 other features you don't. They use prepriatory cases, motherboards, cooling... I've had to try to fix 3-5 year old EM systems and you cna never get the drivers any more and it is very dificult to track down the manufactures of the componants (they do not label anything and provide no spec sheets). They also love using integrated componants on even their top of the line systems. This refers to just about every major OEM (Gateway, Dell, Compaq...).
I guess out of all the ones I know, I would pick e-Machines. Don't laugh. I can build a computer for $1000 thaty will blow away a Dell $2000 system, but I can not compete with bottom of the line e-Machine system. It is just about imposible to build a system on $400 (even $600 is pretty tough). For people that want a basic machine, I usually recomend either setting their target price a bit higher and getting a good machine or just getting a $400 e-Machine.
I know 3 people with them and they are a pain to upgrade do to only one open PCI slot and generally you shouls replace the fans because they will likely fail within 2-3 months. Out of those three though only one has had a non-fan issue. The hard drive crapped out on them. This is after almost 2 years on all three systems (but all 3 had either the PS or CPU fan start to gride after a few months).
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The COMPUTER is your FRIEND!
Happiness is manditory.
AMD Phenom II x4 945 3Ghz | ASUS M4A77TD | 2X WD 1TB SATA 2 hard drive | 2x2GB Corsair XMS3 | nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS | ATI TV Wonder Theater Pro 550 | Antec P-160 case | Antec 650w Earth Watts | LG Blu-ray Super Drive | LG DVD RW | Windows 7 Pro
Isn't that like asking,
"What's your favorite way to die?"
There is no such thing as a good OEM rig. They're in if to make as much money as possible. Thousands of parts put together by the lowest bidder. The ones with good customer support are the ones who plan on having you buy a new machine every 2 years or so.
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Who made that man a gunner.
I did sir, he's my cousin.
Who is he?
He's an ******* sir.
I know that, what's his name?
That is his name sir, *******, Major *******.
And his cousin?
He's an ******* too sir. Gunners Mate First Class Phllip *******
Opteron 148@2805(255x11-1.4v)
Stock cooling(until I get a water block)
Asrock 939Dual-SATAII
1GB PC3200 OCZ Gold EL(2-2-2-8-2 1T 5:6 Divider)
Sapphire X800GTO2(520/580 - Unlocked 16 Pipes)
Antec TruePower 550 vmodded
2x Western Digital WD-1200JS(RAID0)
Lite-ON 1633S DVDRW
Gentoo 2.6.14-nitro2
i have ordered just about every oem for my work, and to be honest i would have said dell 2 or 3 years ago, but over the past 3 years i have gotten pc's that right out of the box didnt even post.
i hate to say it, but from what i have gotten lately IBM has been the strongest systems, not to mention that gateway uses referb parts for there pc's.
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