Dell Dimension 8100

I’ve been a computer enthusiast for about twenty five years. I say enthusiast because I’m technically inept, understand very little about how they work, yet still get a tremendous amount of pleasure, enjoyment and usefulness out of them. I originally had access (I couldn’t afford my own) to an early Spectrum ZX, great fun, but it took about half an hour to load a really simple game. In the mid eighties I purchased an Acorn Electron, they were on sale for a knock down price of £150. This was absolutely brilliant at the time, with fantastic games, which loaded relatively quickly as long as you got the volume control right on the portable ...  Read the complete review

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

when you are running as much software as me, to provide as many different IT solutions as I have to, you need a PC that can do many things at once. So you need a PC that cope with the high demands put on it and know it is not going to fail you at a critical time. You are going to need plenty of RAM for running these applications and multitasking and lots of Processor power to give the whole operation a big brain to work it out with. So who do you turn to? Well, Dell are always my choice. Yes they are expensive but they supply a product that is second to none from the factory. So what are you getting for your money? Externally, you are getting ...  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