Wholeheartedly agree. I only buy dell, and of them, I only buy latitudes. My favorite of all time was my e6440 with an socket CPU. I bought my wife one a couple of years ago, threw a quad core in there, maxed the ram and it's still working well. I had one just like it for myself but after years of my dog knocking it off the coffee table, it eventually stopped displaying. You can put three hard drives in these guys, one in the intended, one in the cd/dvd caddy and one in an m2 slot. I ran linux on it for it's entire 7-8 year life.
Today I have a 5490 (4 years old) which is a beast and puts up with tons of abuse, including drops. I've run linux on it since day 1 and never had a driver issue and is a solid workhorse.
I've always had dell latitudes, and will continue buying them as long as they last me 8 years each and run linux.
Me too! My main computing machine is a latitude from the e5xxx line which I bought 7 years ago, with a dual Intel-Nvidia GPU. it's still working perfectly, no issues whatsoever, and survived a few falls and travels. I also use it as my gaming machine, its GPU is good enough for most modern lite games and modern emulators, I don't expect top performance of course. It almost never gets too hot.
I have a latitude from 2013 that I bought 2nd handed in 2015 or 16. I still run it on holidays (convenient 12.5 inches for travelling) and it still has 4+ hours of battery and works pretty well. I switched from Ubuntu 14 to Lubuntu and it feels like new :) Lacks a bit of RAM (4Go) for some tasks but still does ok.
Probably its replacement when it dies will be a used thinkpad though, will see.
Today I have a 5490 (4 years old) which is a beast and puts up with tons of abuse, including drops. I've run linux on it since day 1 and never had a driver issue and is a solid workhorse.
I've always had dell latitudes, and will continue buying them as long as they last me 8 years each and run linux.