Mesh or Dell

[RobD]

Thinking about buying a new PC,which of the above would you recommend?Have any of you had any bad experiences with either Dell or Mesh computers?Any advice appreciated,cheers

[Apache]

Haven't had any bad experiences with any modern PCs to be honest.

[anderson165]

Ive always found Dell Computers to be excellent!! Its easy to add your own spec by selecting the bits you want online!

[Sancho]

Dell used to be very good. Now just junk. Crappy components and terrible customer service.

Buy a mac, they actually work.

[jotto]

I get all my computer stuff from here http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/

Very helpfull and know what there talking about.

[KERRSURF]

agree with Sancho, buy a Mac.

I have 3 now and I've owned plenty in the past with no issues at all.

[TobyJug]

well i do work together with a PC store seen as I am in IT and I have to agree with a lot off the lads on here Dell nowedays is rubbish...

Mac is good......very good.....

or get a acer or good decent components for a self build.
If u going dual core go intel.

Loads off big brands are rip offs.
I bought an "origin" laptop dual core blah blah top spec for less than half of a simulair like HP, Dell, Toshiba etc and I can tell u that it is as good if not better.
The smaller names can not afford to put rubbish components in so u are most likely better off.

But still I recomend buy the parts and get someone handy to stick it together.
(make sure they really know what they are doing tho.)

And with vista go Home premium it's good now with service pack 1 on.


hope that helps.
If u get stuck I can always build u one

[dee]

surprised about the comments on Dell gear, in a previous life was senior engineer in a 600+ seat battery chicken farm with over half of those Dells, I think we had one power supply fail in 3 years...

Fujitsu on the other hand, still count their field engineer as a good mate 5 years later!

[dirtydog]

I work with Dell and Apple's mainly, the Dells are very reliable and we get good service. Ive had 2 (of 12ish) brand new iMacs go wrong within the first 6 weeks and out of under 20 MacBooks purchased in the space of a year 13 had hardware faults of somekind, generally though Apple's desktop machines are very reliable.
I hate Acer, poorly made generally. Id say Dell are a good bet for desktops and Id probably get a Toshiba or HP laptop if it were my money. MESH are supposed to be very good although they are a much smaller company. Not sure on support but custom machines from www.pcspecialist.co.uk or similar at least can used ok components.

[Retribution]

I find laptops much easier to deal with


Dell all the way

[RobD]

Ordered a system from Mesh last night with the following spec :

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8200 Dual Core Processor(2.66GHz,6MB Cache,1333MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition with Service Pack 1
New MESH Midi-TowerATX Case + 550W PSU [upg £ 35.00]
PCI-Express Nvidia Geforce Mainboard Intel Core™ 2 Duo/Quad Core MATX
4GB DDR2 667MHz Memory -( 2x 2GB )
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
LightScribe Super Format 20x Dual Layer DVD Writer +R/-R/RW/RAM
256MB nVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT - DVI, HDTV, TV-Out
22" Widescreen LCD TFT Digital Display with internal speakers (DVI, 5ms)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card (oem) [upg £ 49.00]
Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Cordless Optical Mouse
Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + 60 Days Microsoft Office Trial
Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
6x USB 2.0 Ports (8x possible on motherboard)
Network Ready integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Multi-format Memory Card Reader (matx)

[TobyJug]

I work with Dell and Apple's mainly, the Dells are very reliable and we get good service. Ive had 2 (of 12ish) brand new iMacs go wrong within the first 6 weeks and out of under 20 MacBooks purchased in the space of a year 13 had hardware faults of somekind, generally though Apple's desktop machines are very reliable.
I hate Acer, poorly made generally. Id say Dell are a good bet for desktops and Id probably get a Toshiba or HP laptop if it were my money. MESH are supposed to be very good although they are a much smaller company. Not sure on support but custom machines from www.pcspecialist.co.uk or similar at least can used ok components.

yeah dell used to be real good.
Now tho the components are very cheap I used a motherboard drivers disc from a £15 mobo in a £1000 dell not long ago and it took the drivers.
They are all build down to a price now unfortunately cus they are competing with the likes of pc world and simulair who only take a 2% mark up.
shame but hey what can we do.

I always get home build tho much better

[Scorpion]

nice one mate looks like a nice machine.
PM me if u *************** I can arrange that for u lol
(no charge)

anyway congrats on the new machine

I may be wrong, but on certain other sites I visit, offers like this are not allowed. Don't know if it applies here but can't a site be suspended or something if it allows the free exchange of licenced software (especially if its Microsoft!)

And before anyone sounds off I'm not knocking Tobyjug for his kind offer!

[legendgamesmaster]

I'm not one for software theft, I buy what I need.

As I see it: If someone wants to give me (or sell me) their copy of something, then thats up to them. I am the new legitimate owner, if they keep it on their machine they are breaking the law.

As for shutting a site down, its hard enough to close the 'obviously ilegal' file-sharing sites.

I guess if we had a 'swap software for free' forum on here it might be different!

[Scorpion]

Just asking mate.

You don't ask, you don't learn.