> Pick your poison and stick with it. Bette the devil you know etc. I've come to this conclusion too. You summarise it very well! ;-) _____ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:17 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Corporate PC Preferences? We used HP for the longest time. Had the same issues as have been described with dells in previous posts. We now use Dell GX 620's. We have hundreds of them with few issues. Dell has been prompt to replace any units with problems. The realization needs to be that all of the components, no matter the manufacturer, come from the same place. Dell doesn't make all of their own chips and capacitors, nor does HP. (albeit they may burn their own bios) All components are rated with a mean time between failure. (MTBF) If that failure rate is excessively above that the manufacturer should replace the systems for the customer as a factory defect. We buy hundreds of systems at a time, when you add shipping and handling of the units into the mix there are always going to be the DOA ones or the ones that have issues out of the box because a memory chip got knocked loose or something. Pick your poison and stick with it. Jim Steve Snyder < wrote: Just curious as to what people buy for corporate desktop PCs. We have been a Dell shop for a few years, but their handling of the bulging capacitors issue as well as the pain of dealing with their tech support over the phone when we RMA stuff (I have to play "guess who we bought the PCs from") has annoyed me enough to look at other options. The only other big players that I can think of are HP/Compaq and IBM - anyone using their newest stuff that'd care to report on them? Reliability, price and enterprise management are my main concerns. thanks. Jim Kenzig <mailto:web%20at%20kenzig.com> Microsoft MVP - Terminal <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=23AEC72D-4582-47DE-8516-85D400AD929 A> Services Citrix Technology Professional <http://www.citrix.com> Provision <http://www.provisionnetworks.com/vipprogram.aspx> Networks VIP CEO The Kenzig Group http://www.kenzig.com <http://www.kenzig.com/> Blog: http://www.techblink.com <http://www.techblink.com/> Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com <http://www.thinhelp.com/> <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=23AEC72D-4582-47DE-8516-85D400AD929 A>