Dell XPS 'Gaming' PC Review

cojsl writes "[H]ard|OCP has an entertaining review of a Dell XPS 400 'Gaming PC'." From the article: "If the Dimension XPS400 is any indication, Dell considers computer gamers a joke. Harsh, yes. But we think it's accurate. The system itself is a decent gaming platform and the hardware was well built. It was put together decently with parts that can pull the weight required to play today's graphically intensive games. But we couldn't even install one of the most popular games on the market, Sims 2, and trying to play other popular games would lock up the system and gaming sessions, when they would run, would get interrupted. The pre-installed programs that Dell chose to include on its computer were almost certainly the cause of all these problems, and unloading these programs from the boot-up routine fixed the problems."

Comments

Re:energy is liberated through blasphemy

[albyrne5]

Gay.

Re:The trouble with OEM discs and copy protection

[ReformedExCon]

No, I blame Microsoft for incorporating the copy protection mechanism into XP which requires me to call Microsoft when I want to reinstall my OS.

I do not blame them for Dell's unwillingness to provide me with a clean installation. But I do blame them for making it difficult for me to re-image my machine without going through a lot of hoops to satisfy the copy protection mechanism.

Which is why I stick with Windows2000, which allows me to do just that when I need to.