Do yourself a favor....don't buy a Dell. Our company used to buy about 50K desktops per year and another 40K-50K laptops each year, and we are no longer buying anything from them due to excessive failure rates. Back in the late 90's and up through about 04' we had pretty good luck with them, but their quality rapidly declined after that.....we've had several croak in our lab, and also several of my guys Dell laptops have shit over the past year or so.
Seriously, I'm in the business...and I deal with their shit from laptops
(in my own team) all the way up their server-level boxes (our customers)...their shit is junk now...do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
Matter of fact, I have a highend Dell Performance tower that I use as a home server in my house....that POS is sitting right here behind me with a bad controller as of last weekend (this will be the third time in 16 months that it has crapped for no reason).
Seriously, I'm in the business...and I deal with their shit from laptops
(in my own team) all the way up their server-level boxes (our customers)...their shit is junk now...do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
Matter of fact, I have a highend Dell Performance tower that I use as a home server in my house....that POS is sitting right here behind me with a bad controller as of last weekend (this will be the third time in 16 months that it has crapped for no reason).