but their desktops are utter garbage.
I bought a desktop PC from them with 4GB of RAM. Of course, it can't actually use all 4GB of RAM (yes, even in a 64bit OS) because the BIOS doesn't have an option enabled to allow memory remapping.
When I contacted their executive escalations department (michael@dell.com) to complain, they just passed the buck to some tech...who passed the buck to the product group...who sent me a link to a Microsoft KB article stating that yeah...it's a problem. For those who don't know what the memory remapping option is/does, it's not Windows specific, this problem would exist in Linux, etc. Buyer beward.
At the end of the day...my unsolicited advice is...build your own PC, even if it costs $100-300 more.
The model of the PC is the Vostro 400 for those who might be thinking of buying one.
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