[LUAU] Who's building system units?

[Jeff Mings]

    Odd...   Most Dells I buy use plain vanilla ATX power supplies, like 
you used to find at CompUSA.  The really compact Dells use a different 
kind of power supply - I don't recall part specification;  they're just 
too small for a "normal" PS to fit in.

    I'm not a Dell fanboy by any means, but they have made buying and 
maintaining boxes easy for me, and their stuff is relatively cheap.

Aloha,

-Jeff Mings


Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Mings <jeffm at lava.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've been buying dirt-cheap Dell boxes for my windows-using clients for a long time; they work well, driver and tracking support on the Dell site is good, and their reliability record has been excellent.
>>     
>
> Yabbut ... Dell doesn't use standard parts. They use their own
> proprietary parts which cost the earth to replace. I discovered this
> when an acquaintance asked me to replace the power supply in his Dell.
> Only a proprietary component would work, and it had to be ordered from
> Dell at an insane markup over off-the-shelf power supplies.
>
> I would never buy a Dell.
>
> --
> Karen Lofstrom
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