But if I build it myself, I have to maintain it myself. With the economy
tanked, I'm more confident that Dell/Costco will be around in 12 months
than I am that Mwave, Newegg, ASUS, Acer will be around. I may soon be
living on a fixed income and only expect to upgrade every 6~8 years when
that comes to pass. As it is, I'm still running WIN2K on Abit BH6's (ca
Spring 2000). Every mobo I bought after that died prematurely from
cheapie Taiwanese caps which seem to have found their way back into the
supply chain lately (re: FORCE5 recently).
Lenovo might be a possibility because I doubt the Chinese gov't. will
allow them to fail. Can anyone vouch for Lenovo's desktop reliability
and user serviceability in a meaningful way? I'd love to hear it.
Jim
maccrawj wrote:
You got $1200 to spend the are better building a system from scratch!
Joe User wrote:
Hello nobozoz,
Thursday, June 4, 2009, 8:17:49 PM, you wrote:
A question for the HWG -
Costco has the Dell XPS 435T with i7-920 2.66 GHz CPU, 6 GB of RAM for
$1000 ~ $1200 US depending on bundled options/video card etc.
Are they reliable?
Are they more or less 'generic' as far as power supply, mobo layout,
etc
or are they so proprietary that only Dell can service it?
If not one of these, what would you recommend for photo-editing, light
gaming and general number-crunching (Mathcad, Excel, Matlab, R,
Scilab).
Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, ASUS, MSI... lots of better choices. IMHO.
