[Leica] Dell Bashing

[summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)]

I work in a 300+ computer environment. The Dells are troublesome, flimsey,
The floppies go bad all the time. the floppy push buttons break and pop out
on the GX150s. The winchesters blow because the onboard EIDE controllers 
fail. The drives themselves are standard quality stuff. But any drive can 
blow if hung on an iffy controller. Also, the smart monitoring warning tends 
to pop up on some machines and I suspect the controllers are the real 
culprits here too. As for my home Pavillions, I've never had a failure. Now, 
with that said I will admit that Dell makes robust quality PC servers and 
once made fairly decent PCs. But you don't get to the toop by making the 
best product, just the cheapest one.
Crap I tell you!
Javier

>I have owned, with my family, 8 Dell computers over the past few to many
>years.  AS much as the assembled multitude dislikes Dell, and especially 
>the
>reliability of Dell, I disagree.
>
>I have never had a hardware problem, and I buy consumer grade computers (
>which use the same quality components as the fancy business  machines),  I
>have had several problems with software, BIOS, and a single bad keyboard 
>and
>a mouse.  Never a hardware failure ( other than a $15 keyboard and an even
>cheaper mouse, that probably was a software issue anyway...)
>
>I have never had a HDD go out on me, and I have owned at least 15 over the
>years.  I have bought Maxtor ( now), WD, and Seagate. I have worked for WD
>( Imaging Business, not Drives).
>
>Rarely is it a hardware drive problem, especially after the first few days
>of running.  Less often even is a motherboard problem, again after a few
>days of operating.  It is usually a software, OS, or BIOS problem, but
>finding that out ( and fixing it) is like pulling teeth.. Techs generally
>will not be able to help you.... Even those from Dell that speak English as
>their first language.....   I was once told to re-install my OS and my SW
>because there was a conflict in the BIOS and my mouse... A Toshiba Laptop 
>..
>a simple change of mouse cured the problem without losing anything...except
>my temper.....
>
>Dell is no better than anyone else, but they are also no worse.  You are
>buying a high tech product made for consumers.  It is like buying a fancy
>rice cooker, TV ( low end), or a microwave oven.  They are mostly all made
>in China, of the same components, and especially of the same quality
>components.  Sometimes the difference between maker A vs. B is the QA 
>checks
>done.  Sometimes it is simply the price point that is marked on the box.
>But never believe that any Company with a reputation they want to be
>positive, like Dell, ships garbage, knowingly faulty items, or even second
>grade parts.  It just is not true.
>
>Yes, Apple is totally designed in house ( maybe.... did you know that MOST
>of the designs on PC's are done at a small company in California? and the
>design kits are given away by Intel? and as long as they buy Intel
>processors, the use of the design is free....).... and certainly under
>Apple's control all the way.  Are they better?  Like I think Brian said, at
>least they are totally under one entity, so there should be more seamless
>integration of the total SW + HW issues.  Is it real?  Maybe.... or maybe 
>it
>is just hype....
>
>Buy whatever you want, backup as often as you can, buy drives from whoever
>you wish.  Sometimes the SW will just go nuts on you, because it can......
>
>Rant off.....
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
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