Reply 20 of 27, by Old Thrashbarg
I'm in IT as well, and I wholeheartedly agree. They took a nosedive after the beige era, IMO. Their high-end stuff is still pretty nice, the Precision and PowerEdge lines, but I think the last decent general-purpose desktop they made was the GX260.
And the laptops... Jesus Christ. A couple years ago I had to roll out about 50 new Latitude E6400s... $1200 each, and every single one of them had some combination of missing screws, bent casings, dark spots in the screen, or warped keyboards. And there was also the brand new $3000 XFR rugged laptop that I had to dismantle because the stylus pen for the touchscreen was jammed in the holder... and in the process discovered that the digitizer panel wasn't even hooked up. And the general design of it was pretty appalling too, like the fact that the hard drive was mounted on the goddamned battery. 😮