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By Andy McCue

Published: Monday 17 January 2005


Name

Anonymous


Location

Orlando, FL


Occupation

Engineer


Comment

Dell is definitely an extremely efficient business. They successfully package a myriad of computer bits from different vendors into ugly unimaginative boxes running an ugly unimaginative operating system. They are proud of this and they are good at it. They make lots of money on low margin machines. More money is saved because their tech support now comes from 3rd world contries.

For the person who cares only about getting the job done with the his or her choice of X86 processor it's a fine machine. If you are good at contending and/or somehow being happy with micro$oft OS I'm sure it's great. I sit here behind my horrible Dell machine here at work because I have no choice in corporate America. They give me a Dell box because it fits in nicely with their business model, and they have a battalion of IT folks to make sure the latest Windows XP patch is loaded, and the firewall is in good working order.



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