Dell OptiPlex 3010---Any Good As A Home PC

daveoc22

I'm in the market for a new PC and I came across these for sale at Dell outlet.

They are shown as being work desktops but they have windows 7 professional installed, Intel Celeron G465 (1.80GHz, 1.5MB), 4GB memory, a 500 GB hard drive and what seems and impressive 3 years warranty.

I only use my pc for surfing the internet, emails, really just minimal stuff with no photo/video/music collections to store or download.

These seem suitable for what I am after, but I would appreciate any comments either for or against.

Thanks

closed

price? is vat included

whats wrong with the one you have

daveoc22

As outlet store various prices around £215-£250 depending on spec---the one I posted was £220, all including vat.

The reason---my dell is about 10 years old and I fancied something a bit newer and a 3 year warranty would be nice.

NiftyDigits

Business machine usually has less carp software bundled with it and perhaps DSR doesn't apply. If the price is right and all that, but I'm not enamoured of the Small Form Factor PC.

sickparrot

We use Optiplexes at work, they're OK for the stuff you want to do, not very expandable and no 3d graphics, but on the plus side they're reliable and virtually silent.

tronator

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Business machine usually has less carp software bundled with it and perhaps DSR doesn't apply. If the price is right and all that, but I'm not enamoured of the Small Form Factor PC.

If they sell it to end consumers, then they can call it whatever they want. The DSR still applies.

And I don't know whether it changed in recent years, but they put the same crap on it. This helps to remove that in one go:

http://pcdecrapifier.com/

NiftyDigits

tronator wrote: »

If they sell it to end consumers, then they can call it whatever they want. The DSR still applies.

And I don't know whether it changed in recent years, but they put the same crap on it. This helps to remove that in one go:

http://pcdecrapifier.com/

Indeed, it is business to business where DSR doesn't apply.

daveoc22

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Business machine usually has less carp software bundled with it and perhaps DSR doesn't apply. If the price is right and all that, but I'm not enamoured of the Small Form Factor PC.

Less carp is good but I'm not sure what you mean by Small Form Factor PC?

Thanks

NiftyDigits

daveoc22 wrote: »

Less carp is good but I'm not sure what you mean by Small Form Factor PC?

Thanks

Even though they show you the pic of a Mini Tower on the right, they are actually sending you the one on the left:



They are the Small Form Factor, Desktop and Mini Tower respectively.

daveoc22

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Even though they show you the pic of a Mini Tower on the right, they are actually sending you the one on the left:



They are the Small Form Factor, Desktop and Mini Tower respectively.

Ah, I understand now.

That's naughty as the picture against the item on the Dell website is most certainly the larger desktop on the right.

daveoc22

A couple of questions if I might:

Firstly, what would be the downside of the small form factor models---what makes them worst than anormal size desktop?.

Secondly, this is probably a daft question, but is there an ethernet connection on these to enable me to connect by wire to the internet.

I've tried looking at the specs of the models for sale but the detail is limited and I'm a bit concerned that being a business model they might not come with the ability to access the internet---as I said apologies if this is a daft question.

Assuming there is an ethernet connection then, presumably, i could just go ahead and download internet explorer, anti virus etc?.

Thanks