There are a lot of bad caps on 745s, in my experience. Your dell rep should own up to it. If they don't, take pictures. Pictures of leaky capacitors tend to be something they can't ignore.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:51:05 -0800 Subject: RE: Favorite corporate PCs? > Sorry for late post. Just got back in the office. > We use Dell here quite a bit. We were really happy with them until our > Optiplex 745s starting dropping like flies (bad capacitors on the > motherboard, and Dell doesn't seem to acknowledge it was a problem). As a > result we're looking at HP. I think you could convince them to be pretty > competitive if it meant you were looking to boot Dell out the door. > Paul > > From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Favorite corporate PCs? > > We purchase a number of PCs each month as part of a rotation cycle. I've > been a Dell customer for years, but lately don't think Dell has been > offering the best price we can get (we are non-profit and state/GSA, > although non-profit pricing is usually better). So I'm looking around. For > desktops I'm not too picky as long as specs are similar. > > HP? Lenovo? Big Lots? > > Thanks, > Tom > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
