

Dell slips to third with HP still leading global sales








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By StevoLincolnite on 7/16/2010 9:40:30 AM , Rating: 1
I've actually never seen a modern Apple PC in real life, none that were made after the year 2000 anyway.
So to me it's actually surprising they had such growth, then again in the US of A, it is probably a different story than here in Rural Australia where there is different marketing and demographics.

And Dell... Besides the monitors, I always viewed them as the "Cheap and Nasty" brand of system manufacturers, so do many others which probably explains there fall from "power".

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By Akrovah on 7/16/2010 7:09:28 PM , Rating: 2
Cheap and Nasty?

I don't know, every Dell I've worked with in the last 5 years was leaps and bounds above other brands I've had to deal with. Plus Dell seems to be the only OEM that still packages straight Windows install discs instead of system restore discs (or the even worse system restore partitions) so that when you get the system home you can do a clean build with just the OS and drivers and get rid of all that OEM crud nobody really wants.

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By Donkey2008 on 7/19/2010 3:26:44 AM , Rating: 2

Dell isn't flashy, but they get work done. I'm not saying Dell is godly with no fault, but at the same time I have run into tons of supposedly "qualified" IT people who blame Dell for problems that have nothing to do with their hardware. In fact, after 15+ years in IT, it still amazes me how many tech people cannot differentiate between a problem with software vs. a problem with hardware and then go on to blame the manufacturer anyway (i.e. "the user's CRM crashed...again. Stupid Dell!"). Other than a few older Optiplex that were replaced during the bulging capacitor days, I rarely, if ever, have problems with Dell workstations or laptops.

The inclusion of a clean install disk is primo and, like you said, something other companies don't do. The service tags don't hurt asset management either.

