Why does everyone hate dell computer here?

Because when you buy from big guys like Dell, HP, etc., you are basically paying extra for their labor.

Also, their overseas customer support sucks.
 
Well, lets see....
Bros laptop:Dead(1 year old)
Friends desktop: powersupply bad(1 1/2 years old)
8 computers at my school:bad
all projectors at my school: horable

I mean they have great servers, but they should just be that-servers- and nothing more.
 
Dell could do alot more for there computers they do almost the absolute min. You can pay 1,000 and still make a better computer for 500. Also there customer service is horrible, i once spent 30 min talking to a person there and at the end of everything all he could tell me was "Please go to our technical experts, thank you" it took them 30 min to tell me he couldnt help me lol.
 
I see. Customer service sucks ass, Hardware crashes/fails, People have the same attiude towards dell computer as they have towards Microsoft Windows vista.

I don't have a dell computer at the house right now. I have three compaq desktops, one gateway laptop, one sony laptop, one acer laptop and one HP laptop.
 
Dell uses alot of proprietary components. I remember we had an old Dell and my dad had to go hunting around for a new psu because the old one failed. After alot of hunting and ~$100 down the drain the replacement blew as well.

That was a few years ago though, I am not aware with what hardware Dell is using now.
 
its somewhat unfair to compare D/HELL to Vista, i mean people here use vista more then people use XP now, but we had the choice not to. we also had the choice to buy a dell or build our own rigs, mostly all of us chose to build.
 
only bad thing with my dell (5150) is the nonstandard case and motherboard, which means no replacements. However, on the plus side, the case is very nice and easy to work in.

Other than that they are cheap, up to date specs, customer service isnt too bad, and you get a good deal of bundled software.

Bit of a pain in the ass to change the PSu in one (they can take standard 24 pin ATX power supplies, but they are a bit bigger than the stock dell one, so its tight (i think one of those slightly smaller psus designed for micro atx cases may be better). However, for most people, the stock dell one isnt bad (its 350w, but seems to be very efficient, never had any problems with it ever. my 2006 pentium 4 model and has dual 12v rails - wouldnt like to try and run an 8800 off it, but it ran my x1650 pro just fine)

Also, they wont take graphics cards that are dual slot.

But for most people (non gamers/modders) they are great. Apart from those mentioned above, all the other components are still easy to upgrade.

Bad point though, is the bios doesnt allow overclock etc....

Good point is that dell offers actual windows media.
 
PHATSPEED7x said:
Just woundering. My mom has a dell desktop at her work, and I've never had any problems with it.
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Because they're lemmings. It's the cool thing to do. Why conform to buying a dell when you can conform to bashing them, and get emo points in the process?:rolleyes:

But yeah, Oscar summed it up: Ford vs. Chevy, American Muscle vs. Japanese Rice Burners, Coke vs. Pepsi...
 
I think he's talking about people hating Dell more than any other company. It's not a prebuilt vs custom built question.

I always see it in the Laptop section. If someone asks what laptop they should get or if they ask if a certain Dell laptop is a good value, I very frequently see someone saying "DELL IS HELL THEY SUCK DON'T BUY ONE!!!"
 
dell laptops are another story though. they cant exactly be accused of using proprietary parts now can they? (JK of course lol) but seriously, with laptops all there is to look at are specs and prices, which is different from looking at a desktop.
 
I have no problem with dell laptops, they are quite nice. But their desktops are usually very hard to upgrade and their cases are a pain in the butt to work with, especially the older clamshell designs.
 
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