computer shopping

[Butterfly]

If you don't need the PRO software don't buy it so try to get that through to the seller. I urge you to avoid Mitutoyo and do consider Dell. Just my experience speaking having owned both. My Dell "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" like John Cameron Swayze used to say about a Timex watch.

I've had very good experiences with Dell also, both at offices and with my personal computers. Their online help is very good, too.

 

[Devi]

Ditto re Dell.

 

[tbeltrans]

I don't own a desktop, but instead switched to using a laptop in the mid-90s. We live in a condo and I don't want a desk taken up with a computer. There are a number of obvious advantages to a desktop, so I am not saying anything negative about them other than that they take space I don't have. My wife refuses to use a laptop, so she does have a desktop.

We both have Dell products. Mine is a Dell XPS15. I like that it has swappable components. I upgraded my internal storage to a 2 TB Samsung EVO+ SSD and the wifi card to an Intel product. I suspect that if I had to pay somebody to do that, it would have been expensive. I purchased an external SSD case made for the form factor of these SSD cards and have a full image backup that I can boot from just in case something happens to corrupt my internal SSD. I am careful about these things.

My wife's desktop is Dell's desktop version of my laptop (8th generation i7, etc, etc.). I believe that Dell makes very solid products in both laptop and desktop categories.

Tony