>Thank you, Scott. Sorry that you had to be our test target >if you will; but had it not been for you. I would have bought >an HP this month. I am in the market for a new computer. > >What do people think of Dell? > >Anna > We bought a Dell 1600SC server in 2003 with a dual Zeon motherboard. We had only one cpu installed originally because we did not think we would need the 2nd cpu. Well in November, we decided to upgrade and put in a second cpu. You would think this would be relatively easy, but it was not. We did not extend our warrantee after it expired (2yrs) so we did not have a contract with Dell. It now seems that Dell can not get a cpu and fan for our server (if we had a service contract, we could get the part from them). So we decided to go on to the open market and get a cpu and fan. This was easy.
We get the cpu and fan and install the cpu. We try to install the fan only to discover Dell has a non-standard cpu fan connector on the motherboard!!! So we google around and find a couple of rants that say other parts of Dell servers are non-standard like the power supply form factor!!! I can only assume the laptops and desktops have similar gotcha's. If you will not upgrade or have any failures (screen, cpu fans, power supply) you will probably be OK. But if you do have to replace something, you better have a service agreement or be willing to get parts from a bone yard particularly as the unit ages. My Opinion, YMMV. It will be interesting to see if my experience is an isolated case or if it is Dell's business model. Rex -- Rex Nelson Ph.D. Ames,IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515) 294-1297 ~~~_/) ~~~ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
