>From: "Julian Thomas" jt{at}jt-mj.net
 >Date: Mon May 29, 2006 3:43pm(PDT)

 >Anyone have any experience (good, bad or indifferent) with these? 
  >I'd be inclined to go for one of the business machines (optiplex).

Don't touch Optiplex GX 270 or 280 with the proverbial bargepole. We 
bought 150 of these last year and we're rapidly (2-3 per week) 
working though replacing every mainboard and HDD. The capacitors 
blow on the 270's and HDD's fail on the 280. Or maybe it's the SATA 
controller on the 280's, Dell appear to have no interest in finding 
out what the real problem is. Some users are on their 3rd. disk.

For business PC's this is really more of a pain in the bum than 
anything else - one user lost 4 hours work because it was "quicker 
to save to c:\temp than the network drive" but that was about the 
only data loss - but ask me how many man hours spent replacing disks 
and rebuilding PC's though and I would be less than happy if I was a 
home user without very regular backups.

I run several ex-work Dell Precision 410 & 420's at home that are 
bullet-proof, plus a couple of Optiplex GX110 that have also 
performed very well, so there are very good ones about.

Regards,

Simon.


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