i believe, ill either be going with a custom built one from ibuypower.com or velocitymicro.com
seem to have VERY solid machines, and both come highly recommended... thanks tho! ras On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:23 PM, [email protected] [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >>9697488 >>thats the sku on http://www.bestbuy.com > > You might want to do a little research on this model. It seems there are lots > of bad ones. > > We ordered one of these from Dell even after I read about the bad ones. It > was a great President's Day deal, with an i5 instead of an i7, a larger hard > drive, and a 20" HD monitor, all for $250 less than the box only at BB. It > took a month to get here. When we fired it up it wouldn't run for more than 5 > minutes at a time. It would either spontaneously reboot or it would freeze > and I had to pull the plug from the wall to shut it down. It took me five > tries just to get past all the Windows 7 setup stuff. I was never able to get > any of the on board diagnostics to complete before a reboot or a freeze. > > We spent about 8 hellish hours over three days with Dell tech support and > customer service, hellish in large part because we couldn't hear them and > they couldn't hear us. Finally we got someone who said our problem was either > the motherboard or the power supply, and if it was the power supply they were > back ordered until at least the end of April. We shipped it back. > > It's a shame. When it ran it was a very nice PC and a good value for the > money. I was thinking of buying the model you are considering for myself. > > This was my fourth PC purchase direct from Dell. The other three went > flawlessly, without problems, as did all three of the PCs which delivered > many trouble-free years of service. > > George > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315064 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
