I agree that they have lost some quality and definately production speed. Gateway was the same. There will always be the top known company and they will reign for a time and another will pop up. Personally, being computer literate beyond the norm, I would never buy a Dell or any other major brand who is going to load it up with "bonus" crap like their support software among other things. Some people might not care, then again they probably don't realize that their top of the line PC runs slower than my old Amd Duron 1.3ghz that isn't overclocked. It's amazing what the average consumer who doesn't know better gets stuck with...don't get me started on HP either.
Do a little research, take the suggestions of those that have used the other sources and you'll be fine..I can't recommend a company as I build all mine from scratch....you'll probably be OK with the Dell as well, I'm not trying to say it will cause you problems, just that you aren't really getting the value that you would assume from the marketing of it all.
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