don't buy a dell,
www.ebuyer.com

What's your budget, and what are you going to use it for?
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:16, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

There's nothing wrong with Dell
I've had a Dell desktop and a laptop for three years and there is nothing wrong with them.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:21, Reply)

I used to work for dell,
there is plenty of things wrong with them, most importantly is the non standard parts they use. Making it very hard to get anything fixed cheaply after the waranty expires.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:23, Reply)

there ARE plenty of things wrong with them.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:31, Reply)

They use standard hard drives, they use standard PCI slots
they use standard RAM, they use standard PSU, what else likely to go wrong with your computer do they use non standard parts for?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:31, Reply)

tempans are the main thing, it's a metal board that holds parts rigid in shipping.
blocks access to a lot of the bits, and has a habit of dropping solder on to the motherboards causing shorts.

Not all the time or anything, still relativley rare, but it's a pain in the arse to fix and caused a few hundred waranty claims a day when I worked for them.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:37, Reply)

I've worked on many Dells with custom Dell ram that's useless in anything else

( Peej, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:40, Reply)

I endorse this.
Had a horrible job upgrading an Optiplex. Problem was the non-standard motherboard configuration.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:32, Reply)

About £500.
Usual stuff. Internet, storing pics, watching yesterdays hightlights from the BBC channels, music. Nothing fancy.

Although my porn storage file is getting quite large now.
( girlinthehole, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:24, Reply)

Get this,
www.ebuyer.com/product/179694
Maybe get an external drive as well, if you need more than 320gb of porn.
Although streaming is the way forward.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:26, Reply)

I was joking about the porn thing you know.
Oh and thanks for the help.
( girlinthehole, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:27, Reply)

It's got a built in webcam for cybersexing strangers on chatroulette as well.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:29, Reply)

I'll bear that in mind.

( girlinthehole, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:29, Reply)

Get an external drive anyway
Eventually your hard drive will fail. Having two copies means you don't lose your dataporn stash when it does.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:35, Reply)

You need two external hard drives
one as a backup and the other to backup your backup. And have a ghost copy of your internal hard drive too so that you can reinstall it back in your machine without having to reinstall all your software.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:36, Reply)

And carve everything you do onto stone and encase the stone in lead and bury it at the bottom of the ocean.
In a shark cage.
( thealternativefact, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:49, Reply)

What about sharks with chisels and arc welding kits, eh? EH!?
Didn't think of that did you little miss clever clogs. Hows you?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:51, Reply)

Their kits will implode.
Helloooooo! I'm fine thank you - how are you?
( thealternativefact, Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:53, Reply)