On Apr 16, 1:18*am, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:44:14 -0700, "Bill McKee"

wrote:

Well, if they are Dells, you'll be speaking to someone on an island off
of Bangladesh when you need support. Good luck.

Point taken.

If the Dell is bought under a company name, the support is US based.

It will still be a Dell
Proprietary parts with ridiculous prices, similar to the PS/2 line
that sunk the IBM PC

Compaq used to be the WORST when it came to proprietary parts. Office
I worked for (a LONG time ago!) had a 286 Compaq that the modem went
out on. You didn't just go to the store and buy a generic modem card.
I asked why, the service guy said that just about every part in that
computer was proprietary. HP computers used to be the same way.