Best/worst computer brands.

[petrthomas]

I would say Dell is the best for me so far.

 

[Format _C:]

I would say Dell is the best for me so far.

Same here although I usually buy the off lease office type ones such as OptiPlex, Precision & the Latitude but I do like the fact you can easily find the service manuals even for their consumer based product lines.

 

[Varmint]

Same here although I usually buy the off lease office type ones such as OptiPlex, Precision & the Latitude but I do like the fact you can easily find the service manuals even for their consumer based product lines.

Dellrefurbished has Latitudes for really cheap. When they had 50% off a Latitude 7490 was $450 w/ 16GB ram and 512 GB SSD. Gonna get one for my kid.

 

[mischief08a]

Dellrefurbished has Latitudes for really cheap.

and a bunch of macbooks

 

[Format _C:]

and a bunch of macbooks

LoL Mapple!

 

[mischief08a]

 

[Deadjasper]

HP is by far the worst. i wouldn't piss on one if it was on fire.

 

[drutman]

Might be hard to find these days but this one is never obsolete:
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Funny but in the day it was ''state of the art'', Even a new custom built PC will be obsolete eventually regardless of OEMs used.

 

[KazeoHin]

None of them are perfect, but some are less perfect than others.

Acer.

Acer is the worst.

 

[KazeoHin]

HP is by far the worst. i wouldn't piss on one if it was on fire.

For gaming PCs? Yes. For enterprise/business devices: not bad.

 

[Deadjasper]

Back before the Internet there was Computer Shopper. When you ordered HW out of it you said a silent prayer that 1. You received what you ordered and 2. It wasn't defective. If you had to return something it was on your nickel and you may or may not get a refund or replacement. The Internet changed all that and drove an untold number of companies out of business because if they had to stand behind what they sold they suddenly became unprofitable. So today instead of having thousands and thousands of retailers we have only a few hundred mainstream ones. Of course there are still niche markets and specialty markets where the little guy can still make a living but these days the big bucks go to the big players. This goes for both HW and SW.

 

[lopoetve]

Best, Falcon Northwest. They've been around for 20+ years. They are the best prebuilt systems you can buy. They are pricey though.

This is the brand we used to drool over when looking at PC's in the PC Gamer magazines back in the late 90's early 00's.
https://www.falcon-nw.com/

Talon: https://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops/talon/design

This. And Origin. And Digital Storm (if you're going REALLY crazy). I may do my next workstation from DS, if they add in the TR Pros.

 

[The_Heretic]

A couple of years ago I bought a system from Puget Systems (Threadripper 3960) because they carry a strong reputation in the workstation / video rendering community. They design systems around off the shelf parts, so no specialized OEM motherboards, power supplies, etc.
As others mention this is not bargain hunting, this is quality parts, clean builds, and they provided a binder full of the testing information of your system (they burn them in and run benchmarks on it) as well as the manuals, an actual OEM DVD of Windows, and a restore USB to put it back as it was when it was shipped.

I did it with that TR because I didn't want to deal with the possibility of ordering one of those CPUs and getting bent pins or possibly murphying it myself and then trying to get that replaced through some place I ordered online. They got to deal with all of that. I pay a little extra piece of mind and quality.

 

[ochadd]

Maybe I missed what he was using it for but used Dell Optiplex Micro machines have been very good to me. Nearly 300 of them deployed for business and home office use over the last seven years. Have had very few failures. For basic office and internet use they work great. Considering the cost of a legit Windows 10/11 license, the hardware cost is $63 and $174 for the below two machines.