I recently purchased a Dell Dimension 8100 with the Pentium 4 1.7Ghz processor, 1Gb of RAM, and 40Gb 7,200RPM hard drive. The intended purchase was for supporting my work and hobbies. Dell's ordering process is quite good, and is possibly one of the better of the large PC manufacturers. As soon as the order has been put through, you can track the status and delivery of the order through their Order Watch which explains in quite some detail what your PC is going through (production, post-production, etc). The order had to be delivered on a Saturday since the courier cannot accept any other signature other than the purchaser's which is handy for ...  Read the complete review

First, some background, why did I buy Dell? To summarise; I bought Dell as their warranty was far more comprehensive than the nearest competition, their web site was clear, easy to use, and gave me the custom price immediately, and the guys on the telephone did their best to be helpful and provide exactly what I wanted. After some sorting out of my custom order my PC finally took 4 days to arrive from order to delivery at my door. So, excitedly ripping open the boxes, I became the proud owner of the Dell Dimension 8100. First impressions of this machine were “wow its black”. The mini tower case is black with a brushed stainless steel effect front ...  Read the complete review

I have recently purchased a Dell Dimension 8100 with 1.4Ghz processor and 256MB RDRAM (128 MB of which came on a free upgrade deal on at the time. I am happy as larry!! I purchased it to replace a Gateway Solo Laptop which was running Windoze NT (crash-proof I hear you say). I dont think so!! I ordered on-line through Dell's website and was very pleased with the treatment from Customer Services. The on-line tracking process was quite exciting too, tracking the PC through all stages until it got to my door(3 days ahead of schedule)-impressive. I purchased a Dell because their warranty was the best around and the spec was the best for the ...  Read the complete review

Inside the Dimension 8100's black and silver minitower, Dell has built one of the best gaming performers i've seen yet. With top-notch home theater components and solid, if not exceptional, performance, this system has a lot to offer multimedia and gaming enthusiasts, as well as small businesses and families. The Dell Dimension 8100 makes its mark as one of the best game performers i've seen, with exceptionally high scores on our Quake III Arena tests. It also blows away almost all other hard drive performance i've seen to date; the only systems that surpass it have been running Windows 2000. Unfortunately, its stellar hard disk throughput ...  Read the complete review

Recently my family purchased a PC from Dell.IT has 933MHz speed,20gb haedrive etc etc.We got a wide variety of games ranging from the superb shoot-em-up 'Soldier of Fortune' to the excellent 'Fifa 2001'. Also, we got a wide variety of software.The system also came with a Digi Cam and.We set up the computer and had been playing on it for a couple of days.Then,we had a problem with our keyboard.It stopped working.As this was a brand new system this shouldn't of happened.When my mum came to phone the DELL helpline(charged at national rate) she found the call was somewhere in Ireland.To make things worse she was on the phone for over an hour.She kept ...  Read the complete review