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.
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.
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.
What are you considering replacing them with?
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.