Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Their business lineup used to be solid, but they haven't been for quite a while in my experience. I have owned and used Dell's business laptops and SOHO style servers for nearly two decades and if I had to put a time frame on when they went downhill it would be somewhere around 2013-2015. They did a major shakeup in their offerings then and their Lattitude and Precision PCs started resembling their far lower quality consumer PCs. My current company had bought quite a few high end business laptops from them over the past several years and they have been a shit show. I have quite literally never seen hardware from a reputable OEM with such chronic and severe issues, especially not when we're talking $3k-$5k machines. We won' t even consider buying from them again.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    What are you considering replacing them with?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    We ended up split down the middle between people willing to use Apple and (for now) Framework laptops. I have no desire to use an Apple laptop and it wouldn't work for me anyway since I mostly use Linux, but I need the option to use Windows as well as I do a lot of work for another company that is a strictly Windows-only shop.

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