Out of the normal brands of PCs, I have found that Dells are generally friendly to work on. I have done a bit of dell contract work and HP.
I will never have anything to do with HP ever again.
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What? You don’t like working on ‘tanks’ uhhh HP machines?
I completely agree with you. Dell computers may not always be the best, but they work, are pretty easy/inexpensive to buy, own, and fix, parts new and used are plentiful, and they post AFAIK every service manual on their website, and access is free. What else would anyone want.
I agree completely with your comment on HP’s, particularly laptops. Junk, made as cheaply as possible and designed to fail.
On the Apple stuff, I will get banned from this board for language if I comment on their repairability.
The last two desktops that I had from HP both were VERY easy to open and change out parts. The first burned out a power supply and it was just a matter of disconnecting wires and sliding it out. The second still works great. I occasionally swap out the hard disk to make it a linux box, but, otherwise it’s a great PC.
Unfortunately, it is living in a storage unit as we don’t have too much room on the boat for a desktop.
Dells are a pleasure to work on and the only real problem I have is the incomprehensible technical support from someplace on the Indian subcontinent.
I remember spending nearly two hours on the phone with someone whose instructions were totally indecipherable to me and I finally had to literally beg for her to switch me over to someone in the states-he fixed the problem in 10 minutes.