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Omnislash124 · 08:53 AM

Why do people buy dell, they've got some ridiculously cheap packages. I own two Dell desktops despite me personally hating Dell. Why do I have them? They're dirt cheap. Here's this ad in the newspaper today from Dell:

Dimension 3100 Desktop

Intel Pentium 4 Processor 521 (2.8GHz)
Windows XP Home Edition
1GB Dual Channel DDR2
80GB SATA HDD
48x CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
Dell 17" LCD Monitor

Price: $419

Yeah, that monitor alone would cost ~$150, Processor maybe about $120? The RAM is pretty cheap but still at about $80. Add in a Mobo ($100), Assume you have your own case and drives and keyboards, etc. , that's about $450. And Dell builds it for you. Wanna play some games? Dump about $150 into a GeForce 7600GT and you got yourself a decent gaming machine at about $569.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by jsphweid

I don't really understand why businesses and people in general buy from dell.

Today at staples I saw an hp. 250 gig hard drive. 1 gig of memory. 2 CPUs (amd athlon 64bit). xp pro media center edition. yada yada yada for about $700. If I configured this computer at dell, it would cost probably twice as much!

Why?
I don't understand why I even buy dells. I love dells, I hate HPs. Am I missing something?

First of all, you're at Staples, a store that always has discounts. My friend bought this computer a while ago. It's a nice computer at a low pricetag. Despite all that, if you're talking about gaming performance, even with a Radeon Xpress 200M, it's still relatively weak. If you're talking multitasking, it's awesome. That and you probably didn't get a monitor with that, unless there was some special deal. I'm not defending Dell here, I'm just reinforcing the fact that they have massively manufactured computers that are dirt cheap. They have good ones too, but those tend to be a lot more expensive.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Omnislash124 · Jun 23, 2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Sir VG

Cheap != Good.

Also, have you ever tried calling their tech support lines? I've had the unfortunate opportunity to do this (one of our work computers is a Dell and the HD blew out on it) and MY GAWD. Awful shit man.

And trying to fix some of them yourself requires you to perform feats of god, given placements of some of the items.

Never had to, Never broken down. Nice reliable machine. Then again, I just switch out stuff when they break. But it's not like everything's broken, the only thing that died is a RAM stick (128MB....lol). I popped in a graphics card, and it's a very nice machine.

There's nowhere I can't reach.