I haven't bought a Dell PC since 2000. It was a piece of junk. Their support was also junk. I'm curious if this has changed in the past decade. Anyone bought a Dell recently that wants to weigh in?
EDIT: Guess not (which isn't too surprising)
EDIT: Guess not (which isn't too surprising)
And my old employer bought dell desktops. I guess they had some bulk deal or something. They always seemed basically fine, and felt pretty solidly put together - I wouldn't have wanted mine to fall on my foot. Some of the staff had dell laptops, and nobody seemed to have much to say about them one way or the other. Which is probably exactly what you want, really...
I can't speak for older Dell stuff, nor for anybody else's experience, but I've seen no evidence that their computers are worth avoiding.
However, I think they had some problems before that and this might be one of the reasons why they're in a pretty bad shape right now (the other big reason being the iPad, tablets in general, Android, etc. of course).