HEY....whoa there....don't make generalizations about Dell hardware just because you may have had a bad personal experince. I've got a Dell 450 PII here in the office. It has a Western Digital HD, Riva TNT video card, USR X2 modem, etc. Not exactly no-name components (and certainly supported). ;-) I'd say if you can look inside the box and verify that it looks like quality components, go for it. As for being hard to use, I can't recall any problems. And I had one of my off-the-shelf network adapters installed and functioning in about 10 minutes. I can't give >any< compelling reason not to buy the machine. Rick Thompson Motley + Associates, P.C.
I know that dell are a hell to use.....
The hardware is BAD it is using a soft modem and a slow and old graphics card.
We use dell machines at work but they are hell to setup. Just getting the network to work takes 30 minutes. And the hardware is not commen hardware you can buy in the shop.
I wish you luck installing linux on such a machine.
You gona need it,
Bye,
Justin Kieft
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