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Subject: [Leica] OT: New computer, price vs. performance
From: john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:27:07 +1300
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2003-2006 ish they were appalling for reliability, these days Lenovo are
better IMO - both desktops and servers. I work in the areas of +1000 ;-)

John - who spends his money on Macs ;-)

-----Original Message-----

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:15 AM, John McMaster
<john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote:

> That is older Dells which they built their name on, newer ones are 
> sub-standard IMO...
>

We had a crop a few years ago that were not so great, all with motherboard
issues, but we use Dells (by contract) on the campus and I would say that
for the most part they are a reliable product.

We have something on the order of a hundred Dells in the Library that me and
another guy take care of, and I just can't agree with you.  Once in a while
a power supply will pack up, or something will fry, but that is really rare.
Almost all problems we run into are pilot error.


>
>
>
> > Dell has terrible reliability reputation. I should know, I bought 
> > three Dells desktop and they all died within 3 years.
> >
>
> At our University Library, we're likely to hit 8 plus years with Dell 
> desktops.  They go obsolete much more often than they fail.
>
>




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