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Yep, I did it again. I ordered yet another PC from Dell. I wasn’t exactly happy about ordering my latest box from convicted fraudsters; but nobody else I trusted came close on price, especially when the Memorial Day sale price kicked in. I actually wanted a less powerful system with no monitor, mouse, or keyboard and Windows XP; but that would have cost quite a bit more than what I did buy.
I most certainly did not buy the extended 3 year warranty with onsite service. I have no faith at all that Dell would actually fulfill any part of that promise. However, this isn’t a mission critical system (I mostly bought it for Age of Conanexperimenting with Java 7) and I’m capable of supporting myself for most tasks.
I thought about CyberPower, but their support rep was even more hideous than Dell’s. (Dell’s support is bad. CyberPower’s is non-existent.) I also looked at Alienware, but they were both expensive and slammed in support.
I also looked at Fry’s and Newegg, but even building it myself (which I didn’t want to do) the price would have been higher than from Dell.
The big boys (Lenovo, HP, etc.) didn’t really offer the rig I wanted, especially when it came to graphics. Gateway I trust about as much as I trust Dell (roughly the distance I can throw one of their larger desktops), but they were quite a bit more expensive. If I had been aiming at a business/development box or a real high end gaming system, the results might have been different; but Dell did the best job of configuring me a relatively cheap system with a top-end NVidia graphics card.
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