Computer

[Ar15]

My son's 10 year old HP broke recently. He is wanting a desktop please let me know what you have. thanks!

 

[Aries]

The last couple we've had were Lenovo and they've been fine and usually reasonably priced.

Dell is usually a decent deal, my last few years in IT their warranty service was hot or cold, if you happen to get a machine you don't have trouble with (which is a good probability) or happen to get a good outcome on a warranty service claim (which was probably a little better than 50/50 four years ago) you would probably be fine. I haven't had a Dell since I retired, so they may have improved on cust. ser.

 

[Cowbaby]

built mine with an Asus board and dual SD drives running a version of Linux. login to boot 4 seconds and I am surfing. No viruses and still running strong after 4-5yrs

 

[tRidiot]

Not much information there... I'm gonna ASSUME he isn't looking for something high end or performance oriented, just solely based on the fact he WAS getting by with a 10 y/o HP.

However, if I'm wrong, I have an absolute monster PC I built a few months back with top of the line stuff. Will play any and every video game title out there on maximized settings. If he's interested. But it's not cheap, I wouldn't let it go for less than $4.5k.

Good luck otherwise.

 

[conditionzero]

I have a computer that is a few years old now. i7 4790K, GTX 1070FTW, 32GB RAM, 500GB m.2 SSD. Let me know if that sounds like what you are looking for, just shoot me a DM.

 

[Catt57]

The last couple we've had were Lenovo and they've been fine and usually reasonably priced.

Dell is usually a decent deal, my last few years in IT their warranty service was hot or cold, if you happen to get a machine you don't have trouble with (which is a good probability) or happen to get a good outcome on a warranty service claim (which was probably a little better than 50/50 four years ago) you would probably be fine. I haven't had a Dell since I retired, so they may have improved on cust. ser.

Having worked for and now in a role where I have to occasionally call Dell support I can say their support is average at best.

 

[SoonerP226]

Having worked for and now in a role where I have to occasionally call Dell support I can say their support is average at best.

Before I retired, we ran almost exclusively Dell. I always paid for their IT Pro Support on the stuff I directly supported (primarily servers and higher-end computers), which jumped you past the script readers and started you talking with the folks who actually knew the systems they supported. Those guys were pretty dang good, but I couldn't tell you about the entry level folks.

 

[JR777]

Mine is a five year old Acer, and I think it was a really good value at the time. Can't remember the specs, but it was one of the more expensive ones with Windows 10 professional. It's the first computer I've had with a solid state drive, which I would highly, highly recommend. I wouldn't even consider for a second going back to a disc at this point.

I would also recommend looking at all in ones. They weren't quite fast enough back then for what I needed, but that was five years ago, so I imagine they've come a really long ways. I would love to upgrade to one to get rid of the giant spaghetti monster under my desk.

 

[JR777]

built mine with an Asus board and dual SD drives running a version of Linux. login to boot 4 seconds and I am surfing. No viruses and still running strong after 4-5yrs

I tried Mint and Ubuntu, but I could never get them to play nice with anything. I might consider running Linux inside Windows just for general web browsing. Matter of fact, it's just kind of laziness that keeps me from doing that now.

 

[davek]

For a basic desktop computer, I've had good luck with refurbished all-in-one Lenovos from tigerdirect.com. Not expensive, not a lot if intimidating parts, bigger screen than a laptop, looks like new even though they are several years old. They put an SSD in them instead of a hard disk and ship with Windows 10 Pro with no crapware.