Dell and its founder Michael S. Dell have agreed to pay over $100 million in penalties to settle charges of accounting fraud brought forward by the SEC.
The computer maker was accused of misleading investors after it used money received from Intel to pad its bottom line. Without the money, the company would have likely fallen short of analyst expectations, thus leading to a hit on their stock price.
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Buying Dell is just buying superior products from a sadly corrupt business. So many businesses are like this though, that it's only the super-corrupt that are really worth boycotting, and Dell aren't bad enough to belong in that category, and Intel are borderline.
I actually was happy with my laptop I bought in 2005, I spent $3000 for it, and it still runs windows 7 ultimate with no issues at all. But then spend a shit load of money on any laptop and it should if you maintain it properly last a long time.
But i hate Dell as a company; they always robbed the public, and robbed employees too.
Dell's best parts are just stripped-down OEM versions of parts you can buy anywhere else for less money. They cut corners on everything, and if something actually works, then it is pure luck. The only reason to even consider them is for a laptop...and that is only because the "DIY" laptop options are terrible, and there are only a few laptop makers that can give you anything decent (at least in specs) for under $1000.
Originally posted by Mysttic: I actually was happy with my laptop I bought in 2005, I spent $3000 for it, and it still runs windows 7 ultimate with no issues at all. But then spend a shit load of money on any laptop and it should if you maintain it properly last a long time.
But i hate Dell as a company; they always robbed the public, and robbed employees too.
I feel bad for you. My new $600 laptop (the brand is irrelevant) probably beats the pants off yours. My policy: Never spend too much on tech.
There's nothing wrong with Dell, at least nothing MORE wrong with Dell than any other large manufacturer (assembler) of computers. The reason their stock isn't doing well is BECAUSE of their decision not to keep selling AMD. They should have stayed the course despite losing Intel's bribes. AMD owns on value, which is all that matters IMHO. Big frigging deal if your company can make the fastest processor in the world? Tomorrow AMD will come out with one just as fast for a third the price!
Nearly every PC maker was hit with the faulty capacitors that flooded the market. I know I had bad Asus/Abit/Soyo motherboards with the same faulty caps that Dell had. The whole industry knew it (or had to).
I prefer to build my own computers because I hate proprietary parts that are not replaceable from off the shelf vendors, but for a business, I liked supporting Dell laptops/desktop WAY more than Compaq, HP, or IBM back when I did that sort of thing.
Dell usually has pretty tempting offers on their low end machines with a flat screen monitor, but never ever get the model that doesn't have the PCIE video slot (I've pretty much seen this type of low end PC from HP/Acer/eMachines/etc as well, tho...so it's not a Dell only thing).
