Talk:Dell OptiPlex

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This article was nominated for deletion on October 13, 2005. The result of the discussion was no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

Robert 00:46, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Corrected btx link

Updated link for BTX since the page has been moved. -- RND  T  C  17:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GX280

Citation needed for: "Many suffer onboard CPU fan controller problems requiring a total motherboard replacement?" I have a dead GX280 that won't post, with an out of control CPU fan that sounds like a jumbo jet taking off sitting right here, next to me at work while my coworker wastes her time messing with it and I type on a backup computer...personally I don't require any additional info... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.27.111.132 (talk • contribs)

That you have a problem with a single machine doesn't allow anyone to conclude that any larger group is flawed, or prone to failure. -- Mikeblas 16:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
I've had 5 GX280 machines fail on me from the same problem. They have the symptoms described above but the problem is the capacitors on the board, they overheat and swell (and sometimes burst). Dell knows about the problem and has been replacing motherboards for all systems with this problem, even those out of warranty. [1] -- Atamasama 00:02, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] notability

I'm taking the notability tag off... Dell ships millions of these. I have two at my offices and I don't even like 'em. Potatoswatter 03:57, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Shipping millions of them does not make them notable. For a product to be notable, it has to be innovative and trend-setting. These products don't fall into those categories; they're manufactured on razor-thin margins using parts available from half a dozen vendors and with features that are very comparable to other products. If this product was truly notable, you'd see lots of articles and books about the "making of", the design of, the designers and team members themselves, and so on. Think of the Corvette or the Volkswagen Beetle, for example; there's piles of books on them. There's hundreds of books on all aspects of Microsoft Windows or Linux or Apple's OS. Are there any books, at all, specifically about any aspect of the OptiPlex machines? No -- because they're not notable. -- Mikeblas 04:02, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
"For a product to be notable, it has to be innovative and trend-setting." No, for a product to be notable it merely needs to have been noted in the media. That is why it is called notable. Mathmo Talk 22:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GXi Memory

The GXi does not take SDRAM. The Intel 440HX does not support it. It takes DIMMS but they are EDO DIMMS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonent (talk • contribs) 18:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dates and CPU speeds needed

The main table in this article is Very Useful. But it would be even more useful if it listed the dates when each model was made, and the range of CPU speeds for each model.-69.87.203.119 (talk) 01:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

yeah, approximate date range would be nice. 70.91.159.1 (talk) 20:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)