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| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 |  Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 3:00PMIs Dell computers good or bad? I have owned 1 Dell laptop and I knwo many others who own Dell computers and only bad thing about them that I can tell is that they bundle too many unnecesary software. Other than this I do not see anything bad. [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 3:20PM [Link] |
| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 4:07PM [Link] |
jayo  All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 4:30PM [Link] |
| skronker Notable Legendary Icon Scopophiliac 9780 Posts 9/02 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 6:09PM At this point, yeah, you can probably just put your own thing together for a lot cheaper. If you're into PC/Windows. [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 7:40PM What I don't like about Dell is that they don't let you specify component brands. For example, you can't specify that you want a Seagate hard drive; you can only say you want a drive of a certain size. [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 8:42PM I'm waiting for their new sub-notebook which is rumoured to be released soon. [Link] |
| igor948 Member 16 Posts 2/06 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 8:43PM [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 10:13PM [Link] |
| Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03 | Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 1:14AM They do bundle too much crap, but just reformat and reinstall and its all gone. [Link] |
| K Smitten Kitten Cloud 9 530 Posts 2/06 | Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 4:48AM The local supermarket has cheaper and sturdier ones available. [Link] |
| Dither Persona non grata I love America 650 Posts 8/05 | Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 8:10AM For private use, it's all Mac for me. I like OSX much better than Windows. [Link] |
| jrv Senior Member 1266 Posts 2/03 | Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 5:35PM Dell puts their own BIOS is many systems they sell, including some notebooks they otherwise simply OEM from Taiwan. On notebooks a Dell BIOS is greatly preferred (desktops have to do less to compensate for Windows bugs and the difference between the Dell and OEM BIOSs isn't so great). Dell gets Windows at cheaper-than-retail prices but most of the difference comes from buying RAM, CPUs, etc in lots of tens of thousands - each day. PS. It used to be easy to tell a Dell BIOS because it had a Phoenix copyright that ended in 1988, when Dell bought rights to it. Non-Dell BIOS they ship have a later copyright to Phoenix, or someone else entirely. [Link] |
| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 6:58PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 10:16AM Most companies like Dell, Compaq, Gateway...they all bundle a shitload of unnecessary software on their machines. Fortunately, most of it can usually be uninstalled or otherwise disabled. The catch is that if the system you bought is like most, everything is on one restore disc so if you have to reformat and reinstall the OS at some point, you reinstall all of that junk you don't want all over again and you have to go through and uninstall it again. Doesn't sound too bad but it can get pretty annoying. Another thing....I don't know about Dell systems but a lot of those OEM systems only come with onboard video and if you want to play any serious games at all, you're pretty much screwed unless the motherboard has an AGP slot (I think PCI Express might be the new standard). On the bright side, these systems usually work just fine for everyday computing and there are good deals to be had. Dell is seen as kind of a premium name but I don't see much that sets them apart from, say, Gateway. [Link] |
| croy Platinum Member Discovry 4574 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Feb 19 2007 : 10:07PM Dells can take video card upgrades at the time of ordering. [Link] |
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