Dell and HP here, have had not a single issue with more than 5 systems of each over the last decade except a single broken key on a Dell laptop which they overnighted a replacement for for free with no extra service plan or warrantee service.
Dell's refurbished outlet gives you some great deals with identical warranties to their new products. The main reason I prefer Dell and HP systems ( particular models only disclaimer ) is that they're much more attractive than all of the other Windows brands. As far as performance, you can buy any cheap windows desktop with anything i5 or better and 8GB of RAM and throw a PCIE revo drive into it for a few hundred dollars and get better performance than any high end workstation for ColdFusion development. Just make sure you do your research, they've released 4-5 generations of the Revo drive ( a simple SSD Raid 0 on a PCI express card ) in the last few years, you'll want the newest generation that fits your price point. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Mike Chabot <[email protected]> wrote: > > I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a > workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as > the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store, > but they get universally good reviews. > > -Mike Chabot > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard > > drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple > > months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked > > too. > > > > Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what > > brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP > > and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL > > Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and > > PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools. > > > > Dell? > > Lenovo? > > Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)? > > Acer? > > Gateway? > > Others? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Matt > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
