{"id":1001208,"date":"2008-05-29T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001208"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:44:29","slug":"dude-i-cant-believe-im-getting-a-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/tech\/2008\/05\/29\/dude-i-cant-believe-im-getting-a-dell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude, I Can’t Believe I’m Getting a Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, I did it again. I ordered yet another PC from Dell. I wasn’t exactly happy about ordering my latest box from convicted fraudsters<\/a>; but nobody else I trusted came close on price, especially when the Memorial Day sale price kicked in. I actually wanted a less powerful system with no monitor, mouse, or keyboard and Windows XP; but that would have cost quite a bit more than what I did buy.<\/p>\n

I most certainly did not buy the extended 3 year warranty with onsite service. I have no faith at all that Dell would actually fulfill any part of that promise. However, this isn’t a mission critical system (I mostly bought it for Age of Conan<\/strike>experimenting with Java 7) and I’m capable of supporting myself for most tasks.
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I thought about CyberPower, but their support rep was even more hideous than Dell’s. (Dell’s support is bad. CyberPower’s is non-existent.) I also looked at Alienware, but they were both expensive and slammed in support<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I also looked at Fry’s and Newegg, but even building it myself (which I didn’t want to do) the price would have been higher than from Dell. <\/p>\n

The big boys (Lenovo, HP, etc.) didn’t really offer the rig I wanted, especially when it came to graphics. Gateway I trust about as much as I trust Dell (roughly the distance I can throw one of their larger desktops), but they were quite a bit more expensive. If I had been aiming at a business\/development box or a real high end gaming system, the results might have been different; but Dell did the best job of configuring me a relatively cheap system with a top-end NVidia graphics card. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, I did it again. I ordered yet another PC from Dell. I wasn’t exactly happy about ordering my latest box from convicted fraudsters; but nobody else I trusted came close on price, especially when the Memorial Day sale price kicked in. I actually wanted a less powerful system with no monitor, mouse, or keyboard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}