Amen on both avoiding Dell and kudos to Lenovo. Dell USED to be great, but
they've cheapened beyond acceptability in random areas, plus having moved
their support to India. Unfortunately, HP cheapened their stuff beyond
acceptability long ago too, and like Dell, so much is proprietary.
I was given a year-old Lenovo ThinkPad a few years ago - it's a well-built
unit, and once I maxed out the RAM to 4 GB, put in a fast 500GB HDD, and
Win7 Pro, it still flies. Unlike Wayne, I really like Win7, though I
skipped over Vista. I've installed it on quite a few clients' older XP
machines, most with RAM upgrades (though as noted DDR2 is expensive) and a
new HDD for insurance, and even with minimal RAM (1-2 GB) it runs much
faster with none of XP's blue screens of death or "what the heck is it
doing" stalls.
Karl
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From: Scott
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] New PC (was Dead PC)
Our office uses refurb Dells exclusively.
If you go that route, I cannot recommend enough that you buy the highest
level of warranty they'll sell you--the one where a tech comes to you that
day to fix whatever breaks. Do NOT get the 'depot' warranty where you ship
the computer back to Dell each time it breaks (and it will--often), unless
you also have a spare machine to use for the two weeks it'll be gone each
time.
Dealing with Dells and Dell itself about the computers has made a lifetime
Lenovo customer out of me. And I was a huge believer in refurb equipment and
the idea that all p.c.s are created equal, no matter the name on the front.
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