Dell is fucking slow:
 

i ordered my fucking PC on the 24th and its expected delivery time is the 9th, i mean wtf, i would have paid the extra $ and gotten in the store if i knew this fucking company was slow as shit.

Dell sucks where have you been anyway?

i post less in the summer, liqour takes up more of my time.

Yeah, I have the same experience. Ordered a monitor from them - took 3 weeks to get it.

If you bought from apple you would have been waiting like I have. Ordered on the 20th. EST date of arrival is the 8th.

mmhmmm
could be worse, could be alienware

dell took 1 day (actually 17 hours) to deliver a pc to my door

I ordered and got the PCs in 5 days.

omg.... because of all the coupon talk on gfy you decided to buy a dell?

fuck ........ :1orglaugh

Dell PCs are fucking slow, both in delivery and performance. Have to reinstall that shit once you get it, the amount of bullshit software they put into these PCs makes a dual centrino seem like a C64

I'm of quite a different opinion with Dell.

Started using them about a 1 year ago, maybe a bit longer, and have had nothing but great experiences...

I've order 3 systems total now, 2 pdas, 3 monitors, and couple of printers etc... All of them are to me very quickly.

Customer service admittedly could be better as far as tech support goes, but comparitely to experience with Sony, and Gateway, they rocked.

I my dealings with Dell it has always been a slow road. :Oh crap

True dat. Where you Dell lovers been? It's been like that for some time now.

:disgust

you had to deal with Acer.

So what brand do you MOFOs recommend?

My Dell doesn't like warm weather. :(

It's just a piss off, normally places take 2 days to fucking process and send your order, this shit has been in production since the 25th.

serioulsy, it does not take that long to build a PC.

what is the most piss off is that my PC is basically fuxored, now i have to sit on my mac for the next 2 weeks waiting for this bullshit, never again will i order from them. it says "2-5 day shipping" not, "we take a half a month to get your PC built and then shipped". GRRRRRR

Dell is kinda fast.. normally :)

all of my servers arrive with in about 3-4 days if not 2 days day to prep and dovernight. get yourself someoen with a enterprise reseller free overnight shipping and you can get things bumped into the priority queue.

Though if they are short of a product like the 850's were on a two week backorder about 3 weeks ago :( then your screwed and have to wait.

i called their support the other day. I talked to some girl from bangledesh that tried to tell me her name was Janice Joplin.

i prefer an HP :)

Build your own machines.

:2 cents:

They usually show up before that date. I think they jsut give a long shot date incase problems arise.

A bunch reasons NOT to build your own.

Compatibility issue:
Say the motherbaord is not working well with the hard drive selected. Dell, HP, IBM etc. have teams of engineers to resolve the issue.

Manufactures continously update software (drivers):
Build it your self and have a lot fewer upgrades from the motherboard manufacturer.

It doesn't work, a brand name offers support to help:
Even if isn't the best or in a third world country some support beats no support.

I could go on and on, but think you get the idea.

I think they over predict on purpose. Every time I have ordered from Dell they give a 3 week estimation and I have it sitting in my living room within a week. I've always been impressed with their speediness. This includes 2 desktop computers, a laptop, a monitor, a MP3 player, and 2 different parts orders. All separate orders, all within a week.

i love both of my dells and i got them quicker then they told me i would so good luck

My Dell laptop took 2 days to get to my door, and I'm very happy with it :)

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If you know what you are doing, then you build your own machine, and it's easy enough to keep up on all of those things. But that's just me.

Plus I can build a better machine, with higher end parts for the same or less money than a subpar system off the rack somewhere else.

I too could go on and on about why you should build your own if you know what you are doing, or want to research it.

haha, fuck Dell. Oh god, never again will I buy anything from them.

Usually takes around two weeks for them to deliver custom ordered pcs, well for me it does

agreed with barefootsies, cut hundreds off the price, and have more power in it. :)

thats the spirit.

ive ordered about 50 grand worth of shit from them for myself and clients.

their customer service at times has sucked cock (outsourced to india) but theres a trick to getting good service -

you must ask for an american rep during US business hrs.

also when your a preferred mothefucker like me, they dont fuck around and actually have a preferred cust serv rep they connect you to instantly-

dell also sends you kick ass coupons - this week i got a 35% off coupon plus they gave me another 10% because i was a preferred customer.