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!$@%#!&* Dell GX620s
In the summer of 2006, we bought 23 Dell Optiplex GX620s for one of the student labs/classrooms at the office. Under two years later, ten of them have had their power supplies and motherboards replaced. (Well, technically, nine have. One had to have the procedure done twice.) That's a failure rate of nearly 50%. Not so good. We could only find one public record of this kind of significant failure count, but we have spoken with an acquaintance at another higher ed institution who says some of her people have seen an unusually high failure rate with these. We'll be talking with our sales rep about this. Not a comforting thing.

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