Howdy! hey I do this for a living and I purchase technology for a lot of folks, a team of 3 thousand to be exact. Dell is pure garbage, they are not a research and design organization, they are purely a technology assembler. They throw whatever they like and can buy cheap, into thier machines.
Kinda like a wallmart of technology. If you want a quality product stay away from Dell and Compaq.
Fujitsu and Sony are years ahead and very dependable. You pay more but you'll be buying a quality engineered product. I have purchased them all over the years and these folks blow them all away.
Last year I purchased 700 laptops and out of that amount only one arrived dead on arrival. To date not one has failed. Dell and Compaq has a huge failure rate....just my two cents though...