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andygrif · 17-05-2004, 21:17

My personal preference would be Dell on my two experiences:

Personal computers - I'm on my third Dell desktop now - I guess you could call me a serial upgrader. The new one is the best I've had yet (and 8300) and is a superb piece of architecture. The cases are on little pistons, making case access simple. Everything inside is snap-in, rather than using those nasty little screws, and the layout is superbly thought out, easy access to every component.

Professionally, I'm not an IT person, but I recently specified a new gigabit based professional audio editing system for my department with 4tb of storage.

We went for the big Dell Precision workstations (same case as the 8300) but the build quality is far superior (even though the 8300s are superb). Installed about 2 months ago, and not a single hitch along the way or since.

Someone mentioned that the HP use proprietary motherboards, well so do Dell, but they are more like tweaked Intel ones than custom made - but it's worth bearing in mind.

Also, it's definitely worth going back to your account manager at Dell and sending him the quote from Insight - they may surprise you. We got a great deals on our 20 workstations, whilst they only tweaked the cost downwards slightly, they did upgrade all the processors, additional memory and hard disks plus upgraded the tft screens to 18" UltraSharp ones.

Worth a try!

17-05-2004, 21:17	#18
andygrif Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,820	Re: Dell or HP??? My personal preference would be Dell on my two experiences: Personal computers - I'm on my third Dell desktop now - I guess you could call me a serial upgrader. The new one is the best I've had yet (and 8300) and is a superb piece of architecture. The cases are on little pistons, making case access simple. Everything inside is snap-in, rather than using those nasty little screws, and the layout is superbly thought out, easy access to every component. Professionally, I'm not an IT person, but I recently specified a new gigabit based professional audio editing system for my department with 4tb of storage. We went for the big Dell Precision workstations (same case as the 8300) but the build quality is far superior (even though the 8300s are superb). Installed about 2 months ago, and not a single hitch along the way or since. Someone mentioned that the HP use proprietary motherboards, well so do Dell, but they are more like tweaked Intel ones than custom made - but it's worth bearing in mind. Also, it's definitely worth going back to your account manager at Dell and sending him the quote from Insight - they may surprise you. We got a great deals on our 20 workstations, whilst they only tweaked the cost downwards slightly, they did upgrade all the processors, additional memory and hard disks plus upgraded the tft screens to 18" UltraSharp ones. Worth a try!