[ctdonath2]

I’m with Swordmaker: a few anecdotes don’t make for viable statistics.

I’ve owned one Dell: sent it back 6 times. May mean I won’t buy Dell again, but isn’t a deciding point for you.

[Dead Corpse]

I ordered 200 Dell Optiplex workstations for a company I was Sys Admin for.

Sent 4 of them back.

I currently have about 90 HP/Compaq workstations and 1500 Macbooks. Servers are a mix of HP, Dell, and XServ.

Apples don't have a magic bullet against hardware failure and aren't any better than any other manufacturer.