WTF Dell
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why dont you se if see can get her money back so you can build her one.
macdawg
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wow you guy exgagerate BAD.
dells are fine for most people, because all most people do is email, type, burn CD's, and look at a little porn.
"And the fact that usually if you build a $600 computer, the competing Dell will be around $1100."
horseshit, first of all if you build your own you gotta spend $100 to get an XP disk alone. also you can build up a dell on the small business side and get a better deal, you can haggle and talk down a salesperson 10% on price pretty easily, you can check out fat wallet.com and find outrageous deals on dells.
you can get Pentium® 4 Processor 630, GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 80GB, CD burner, 19" LCD, and a 256 mb 6800 vid card for under 1100.
dells are fine for most people, because all most people do is email, type, burn CD's, and look at a little porn.
"And the fact that usually if you build a $600 computer, the competing Dell will be around $1100."
horseshit, first of all if you build your own you gotta spend $100 to get an XP disk alone. also you can build up a dell on the small business side and get a better deal, you can haggle and talk down a salesperson 10% on price pretty easily, you can check out fat wallet.com and find outrageous deals on dells.
you can get Pentium® 4 Processor 630, GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 80GB, CD burner, 19" LCD, and a 256 mb 6800 vid card for under 1100.
macdawg
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most people don't have a copy of the most recent version of windows sitting around, pirated or unpirated. A normal guy like me that would self build would have to spend the 100 for XP cuz I don't have a pirated disk of XP. I agree its better to build your own, but why do you guys have to exgagerate so bad? In the past it mighta been cheaper to build your own, todays different, and not every dell breaks down. And of course the $299 one will break down, your lucky you got 2 years out of it. Thats why its a friggin 299 computer.
macdawg said:
It is true. If you get comparable mobos, video cards, RAM, average warrenty of your parts, etc. I've built 4 computers and my prices just kick the crap out of Dell. So don't tell me it's horseshit when I've gone to Dell 4 times and their prices are hundreds of dollars higher than my own.
Also, why buy XP when you can get Win2kPro for $30 if you shop around.
I didn't say EVERY Dell breaks down, but I have seen a ludicris amount of problems that are way out of the box on Dells. Like I said---while at school this past year, I fixed one eMachines, and 9 Dells. When most of the people I know who have Dells have problems or have had problems that required hours spent on the phone with tech support that they can't understand, that's a problem.macdawg said:
i agree with som of this crap but definitely not all, when i got my dell 4 years ago most of my stuff was on PCI and the video card was AGP(io thought that was pretty good when i learned it was crap, but good enough for me, when i build my own computer whenever i do in the next 5 - 10 years i dont want anything on board except keyboard, mouse and USB/firewire, w/e expansion they come up with by then. I want everything on the expansions slots, cuz either way you have to replace it if it breaks, this woule get rid of the old issue entirely if its all expansion. Sure i had a lot of problems with this thing to begin with but thats because that was before i knew anythign about computers and had ME on here, then i upgraded to windows 2000 and eventually server 2003(for my home server) and i have almost no problems now.
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