I’ve never been much impressed with Dell gear. I find most of it is always lacking in features (I am talking from an enterprise stand point, not home/consumer goods). Their gear runs and runs to be sure; but it is not well thought out and seems to copy the innovators with shoestring budgets.
I am sorry to hear about all these layoff’s however. Its tough as it is “out there” and the folks are going to have a hard time finding employment that matches what they were making at Dell.
I’m actually not very tech-savvy; I ask close friends/family any time I’m looking at buying anything.
I’m on my fourth Dell, most have lasted 5 years or more, even an old refurbished model was pretty good. I’m aware of large users that have thousands of Dell units, and the only reason they changed was to upgrade speed and monitors - cheaper to buy a package than in pieces. They are way a head of the folks at Lenovo and HP has had to make lots of changes to Compaq...which is why they are #3.