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While I know others have had bad experiences, I have had nothing but good experiences with Dell computers.
I recently purchased an Inspiron 15 (3521) touchscreen Windows 8 laptop for my kids. When I got it, I looked at the hard drive layout and noticed the system recovery partition. Unlike a few other Dells', this one didn't have an F# button that you could press to have it restore the OS back to the defaults. I looked around and found that there was some software on the box to create recovery media.
Just to be sure that I was going down the right path (that being that if Windows 8 would not boot, I could create either a USB key or a DVD to boot from to recovery my system), I started up a tech chat with Dell. Within just a few minutes, they offered to overnight me a Dell Recovery USB key at no charge. 2 days later and the key is at my house. No fuss, no muss.
As far as bloatware is concerned, I uninstalled the Office 365 trial and the Mcafee Internet Security Suite and that was it. I went into Task Manager and prevented about 5 things from automatically starting up. Perfectly happy with the computer.
Kudos Dell.
I recently purchased an Inspiron 15 (3521) touchscreen Windows 8 laptop for my kids. When I got it, I looked at the hard drive layout and noticed the system recovery partition. Unlike a few other Dells', this one didn't have an F# button that you could press to have it restore the OS back to the defaults. I looked around and found that there was some software on the box to create recovery media.
Just to be sure that I was going down the right path (that being that if Windows 8 would not boot, I could create either a USB key or a DVD to boot from to recovery my system), I started up a tech chat with Dell. Within just a few minutes, they offered to overnight me a Dell Recovery USB key at no charge. 2 days later and the key is at my house. No fuss, no muss.
As far as bloatware is concerned, I uninstalled the Office 365 trial and the Mcafee Internet Security Suite and that was it. I went into Task Manager and prevented about 5 things from automatically starting up. Perfectly happy with the computer.
Kudos Dell.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self-Built in July 2009
- CPU
- Intel Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.40Ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev. 1.1, F12 BIOS
- Memory
- 8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23" Acer x233H
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Intel X25-M 80GB Gen 2 SSD
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black, 32MB cache. WD1001FALS
- PSU
- Corsair 620HX modular
- Case
- Antec P182
- Cooling
- stock
- Keyboard
- ABS M1 Mechanical
- Mouse
- Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
- Internet Speed
- 15/2 cable modem
- Other Info
- Windows and Linux enthusiast. Logitech G35 Headset.