Dells are like Ricers. Ugly trinkets with ugly cases and accessories using bottom of the barrel shitty cheap Chinese 2 cent parts.
When dell wants to build a new system type, they put the motherboard, RAM, Hard drive and other components out to bid. Basically whichever OEM bids the lowest, they use them. The subsequent parts are then usually extremely stripped down versions of retail channel parts using shoddy components that are known to be bad or not have a long shelf life, and the consumers get screwed over in the end.
I don't know if you remember the fiasco in 2007 when dell was forced to replace tens of thousands of their machines on their own books because they sold them with knowingly bad capacitors that blew out and caused no end of trouble for the consumers that bought them. I was contracted to do around 2,500 of them myself which took about 2.5 months.
Bottom line, Dell is shit.
Oh really? Because every person I know who owns a Dell other than myself owns one from 7 years ago. And they all still work with little or no hardware failure.
Bottom line, IF YOU FUCK AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT, EXPECT TO BREAK THINGS.