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Has anyone purchased a Dell computer lately
I've bought five Dells, the last about 18 months ago. I was about ready to buy another until Michael Dell proudly stood at a podium and announced shipping 20k jobs to India. Now I don't know what to buy. HP sucks ever since Carly Fiorina ran them to ground. IBM sold out. Gateway's been having support problems longer than Dell. I'm amazed eMachines products even work as poorly made as they are. I really need a dual core laptop as a development machine for running vmware. I gave up on getting good answers to tech support requests from any company years ago. By the way, you can still get parallel ports from Dell but maybe not the base models. At least that's how it is with their laptops. If you order online you often have a choice of getting the product CDs for no extra cost but they don't ship them by default.
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I've built dozens of desktop machines all the way up to high end servers with quad processors, multiple NICs and RAID drive systems. It's not that hard but for me it doesn't make much economic sense anymore. If you have specific needs that can't be satisfied with an off the shelf machine I can see the need but at today's prices it doesn't seem to save much money. Then there's the warranty issue - drive manufacturers pointing to controller problems, video manufacturers pointing to MB problems, everyone pointing to config or assembly problems, etc. It's easier to source it all from one place.
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You can't even buy a GOOD power supply for less than $75. Inexpensive motherboards often cause problems down the road. Many of the connectors are only rated for only one or two insertions - plug in and remove a card or connector a few times and you've worn the entire micron layer of gold off and introduced an intermittent problem. These days the entire system has be engineered for thermal performance too. Cooling and airflow are critical. Lack of cooling can cause all sorts of trouble - even ethernet chips can dissipate 600 mw and that heat has to be removed. Not doing so can cause strange lockups and more intermittent behavior. Let's not even talk about RF emissions.
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