First post, by aberration
So these great big hulking white Dell Optiplex machines were what my elementary school had circa 1998-2002 so they hold a special place in my heart. Because of the nostalgia attached, that rounded-front leaning-forward case design is my absolute favorite and I have amassed something of a hoard of them (went a bit wild purchasing at my favorite electronics surplus store). My pile has two GX110s, a GX115 which all sport Pentium 3s, a GN+ with pentium and a lovely original windows 95 install. And then there is the odd-one-out black GX400 on my desk with a 1.7ghz first gen pentium 4 williamette that is running windows 7 32 bit with 512MB of rambus amazingly well such that it allows me to do all my nursing school homework and even browse if I stick to 1 tab. I'm afraid I'm too lazy to plug them all in to get the specs but while procrastinating homework assignments I have fully dismantled, cleaned, and reassembled each of them. I have to say that the lever activated removable riser card is probably my favorite feature and the GN+ has some generous room for ISA cards. Plus, dell has been awesome about keeping their drivers available for these old beasts and I was delighted to find that windows 7 32bit would work with the windows XP drivers on the GX400. Only problem is that I would need to get a power supply adapter if one of the PSUs ever blows because of Dell's stupid custom layouts.
Any other Optiplex fans out there?