> > Because they are brilliant machines, and the customer support is equally brilliant > if > > you invest in a decent warranty plan. > > They do occasionally come up with a lemon, I had one that had a separate video card > and the way the two boards connected meant that there was a lot of mechanical stress > on it. > I put in a second hand motherboard & graphics card from ebay in there and it doesn't > get moved much now and is still going, it must be nearly ten years old now. > > The dell I had before that used to cook hard drives and the tv out on most of them > blew after plugging them in a couple of times. The first indestructible dell laptop I > had was an inspiron 8600. The latitude d820 I had after that blew it's graphics card, > although the monitor was a bit rubbish. > > My next was a xps 1530, which is fine except it had one of the NVidia chips that > died. > > I would still recommend dells, but if you're spending a lot of money then I would > always pay for on site warranty and if it's a laptop then also accidental damage.
Probably the only lemons out there are SFF PCs, there's no way you will get more than 2-3 years out of a PC when the entire case is 50°C with fans running at full speed - once that fan starts making grinding noises and drops to 1/3 speed, swap it out right away.
Also, it doesn't help when some companies cheap out on power supplies and put low quality caps in the power supply (CapXon caps don't even belong in a fire, they'd likely cause the fire to fail too!). Bestec power supplies were probably the biggest killers of HP products in the last decade - when they failed (notably the ATX-250-12E model), they used to send 12V through the 5VSB while the PC was "off" and fry everything!
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