What model? Some of the Dells like the Optiplex are really considered Workstations!
My school uses a combo of Dell Optiplex "N" series models that have malfunctioning RAM modules (supposedly they're supposed to run up to I think around 1GB, though when I go to Computer properties, some say 256 MB RAM, other's say 512, some say 1024MB/1GB RAM) and HP Compaq machines of various series numbers, some the size of a shoe box, others the size of a box fan. And there's the boat anchor monitors that don't work right. What can I say, the school is only 13 years old and the school district is now poorer than ever before. Other schools in my district that I've enrolled in in the past have used custom computers that have failed, and Gateways that have failed. When I was in kindergarten the district used Mac's! When I was in 6th grade, the engineering dept. at my school had Mac's!
As for me, I grew up in a household that abided by Windows machines. I cannot begun to tell you (much less type it here) how many new cuss-words my dad has come up with everytime there's a problem. He's built custom computers for years since Windows 95, and we've had numerous HP computers. Now we've got a 3 year old custom Windows Media Center XP machine collecting dust on my desk, two HP Pavilion Elites (one running XP, about 5 years old, the other running 64-Bit Vista, about a year old), a custom Windows computer collecting dust (and probably has a ton of updates) running XP in my Dad's office, a custom blue-acrylic XP machine that has just been cleaned out, four laptops: Compaq running 98, HP Pavilion running XP (wiped three times), Toshiba running 7 Home Prem. (wiped twice) and a Dell Studio 15 running Vista, soon to be upgraded to 7; and three netbooks: two Acer Aspire One's running XP and a Lenovo IdeaPad running XP, which may or may not get the 7 treatment. Plus my Dad has empty computer boxes, dead motherboards, hard drives and the like lying around in his office. And when I asked for the Power Mac that I'm currently typing on, there's been no problems- he hasn't said a word about it, and I obviously have no [major] complaints. And now I'm getting my second Mac (after only 6 months of getting the Power Mac G4) this Christmas, which I have no idea what it is (that's the general idea here isn't it?
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