They actually make great servers and desktops, but laptops need better testing and design IMHO (MCGower stfu about the DNS thing OK!!!?!?!! ;P ).

 

+1 - it's ok for me to say I don't like something. It doesn't mean I am "dissing" it or trying to make someone change brands.

We use Dell servers at work - 748 PE2450 servers in production around the globe today (less than half of our install). I am solely responsible for their status and condition (till today anyway...!!!) and the only thing besides drives that have failed is 1 DRAC and a few sticks of RAM. Not bad. I *personally* do not like Dell laptops, though I admit you would be hard pressed to find a better value.

 

We just got two Dell X1's in last week. That's one thin laptop. Replaces the X300 and too bad. I have a X300 and that's one nice laptop for traveling.

 

our state contract with dell automatically has a 3 year plan.

works great when you give faculty $2500 worth of hardware and a majority of them dont give a s**t about it...

 

<rant>
I know exactly what you mean. I worked in the IT department for a big company last year and we constantly were sending back fuxored dell laptops, not only because of their build quality, but because people would drop them, step on them, and ask why they broke.
There was even one that broke the screen, it wouldnt start up at all, and the only salvageable thing was the HDD, which is good because a lot of data was on there.
</rant>

 

This is the laptop I have: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...203995363&rd=1

It's pretty heavy and the build isn't as good as some of Dell and Apple's higher end stuff, but for the price it freaking pwns

 

soo...... any opinions on which is better, AMD or Intel?

 

Right now my vote goes to Intel for the Pentium M with the 2MB L2 cache core.