On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:19 AM, Tony Smith wrote:

> Dell - yes for corporates, maybe for domestic, no for nerds.
>
Hmm.  Maybe.  But figure out where your nerd-interest lies.  If
I'm going to fiddle with microcontrollers, electronics, embedded
software, and even software development, I'm not sure I need a
"nerdy" desktop computer.  I've bought five dells in the last
few years (most "low end specials" as documented by
http://www.dealnews.com; no trouble finding them...), and been happy
with all of them.  Most have been upgraded with additional memory,
some with additional disk, one with better (somewhat hard to find)
PCI video cards (since AGP connector was not included on that
low-end system), and I've occasionally added a DVD. They were
all cheap enough to not worry about upgrading after two years
or so passed, and I've been generally pleased with them.
Frankly, that's pretty much all I want from a PC...
(of course, my other systems are Macs, and the upgradability and
maintainability of Macs makes Dells look good even if all the
bad things said about them are true!)

BillW
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