Dell and Walmart

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Originally Posted by ST!X

It seemed like DELL needed to, sooner or later, take this stepping stone towards a larger success. HP is whooping EVERYONE'S asses to the floor with sales and all that jazz. They're simply the best right now - and their quality isn't bad at all either! I'm compelled one of these days to go grab an HP Computer REALLY cheap with 2GB RAM, E6(3/4)20, an insane 500GB hard drive or something and just move everything to a different case. That's, in most cases, cheaper than buying all the parts separately, and you still get to say you built it!

HELLO! SCORE!

HP is murdering all its competition BECAUSE they're in retail stores. DELL saw this drawback at their company, and finally decided to make something of it. This is going to bring a new level of success rate to DELL, let me tell you know. They could be more popular than HP, if you guys can level with me on that one, but HP has more sales because they are the widest available, and probably best price-for-performance value out there - definitely better than (again) buying individual parts. Heck, you can get an HP system AND an Antec P182 together for the price of the hardware alone elsewhere (thats an example, but it might be true!).

It's clear why HP is the leader right now. DELL knows and has known for a long time. Time to do something about it!

BTW - I really like the look of the new black HP cases they were showcasing recently! Finally > black! No more silver and blue...I do however not mind their straight silver look whatsoever.

I've been playing with one of these for a few weeks. I have to say, it's not as nice as you think. Basically, at minimum you would want a new MB and likely video card on their 6420 system. The BIOS is locked down harder than ever before. The parts are pretty nice for an OEM, but so much of it has been monkeyed with and then locked out, you would want to strip it and use the parts to build another system. I have not been able to turn off clock stepping and any overclocking will be limited to the FSB - if that.

Nice case though.

As soon as I feel better I was planning on writing an article up (mainly about vista on an OEM).