Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] OT: New computer, price vs. performance
From: pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:43:32 -0700

Thanks, everyone. I, too have had very good experiences with Dell--we 
used them at work for many years. There was a period where some bad 
capacitors got into the supply chain, resulting in a few fried 
motherboards around 2005-6.  Aside from that, my experience has been 
like Sonny's, they went obsolete long before they died. The Optiplexes 
in particular seem really built to last.

I've made my decision--I got a good deal on a recent Optiplex 980 refurb 
with i7-870, 4 gigs RAM and a separate video card, plus a 23" 
"ultra-sharp" (IPS) monitor.  So I went that route.  Now we'll see.

--Peter

 > LOL!
 > Cheers
 > Jayanand

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
wrote:

 > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com
 > >wrote:
 >
 > > Peter,
 > > Dell has the most awful and atrocious after sales service you can
 > imagine,
 > > at least here in India
 > >
 >
 > Yeah, that's because all the best phone techs work the night shift 
for the
 > US market, Jay.   You need to call Dell at 3 a.m. your time!
 >
 > --
 > Regards,
 >
 > Sonny