Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #12997 in Personal Computers
- Brand: Dell
- Dimensions: 28.00 pounds
- CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 160GB
- Native resolution: 1280x1024
- Display size: 19
Features
- Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3.6GHz
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 320GB Hard Drive
- 19-Inch Screen, ATI Radeon X800 XT
- Windows XP Home
Dell Dimension 8400, Intel P4 3.2GHz HT, 1GB RAM, DVD Writer, RAID 0 Dual SATA 160GB Disks
Product Description
The Dimension 8400 delivers all the benefits of the Dimension 8300 but now with the latest technologies including PCI Express graphics, Dual channel DDR2 SDRAM and the Intel Pentium 4 Processors with Hyper-Threading Technology up to 560 (3.6GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB). These enhancements provide high end users the ability to run advanced productivity, intense graphics and enhanced multimedia applications.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
28 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Honestly - the worst customer service ever!! DO NOT BUY A DELL
By A Mother's Logic
I would give this product negative stars if I could. My advice, buy an Apple, their customer service is unmatched by any other I have experienced.I have 3 Dells, nearly all the same system. My problems started with the last one purchased. From the moment of setting it up, it NEVER worked properly. We called the tech support - and the nightmare began!!Now I have issue with any company who makes a majority of their money in an American market, whose entire sales staff is all American, or at least speaks without accents, and then suddenly when you call tech support with your valid issues you are only speaking to foreigners with such heavy accents and very little regard for American customs and ways of life.Dell out-sources all of their tech support to India and now the Philippines, which are two countries that are far more economically depressed than ours. This becomes an apparent issue when you are trying to solve a serious tech problem and you are met with the attitude of being a spoiled and ungrateful American, and treated as if your valid problem is trivial. I chalk this up to the fact that what you spend on your computer as one purchase takes them a huge amount of time to earn. I could be wrong, but after dealing with the tech support for over two years, I feel as if I am experienced enough to make that call.Another issue that is painfully apparent when dealing with the out-sourced tech support is that the accents are so heavy that it is very hard to understand what they want you to do, and when you repeatedly ask them to repeat themselves, they take offense. I often find myself telling them my phone has an awful connection and to please spell what they are saying. I never want to offend anyone, and usually on the phone with tech support I often feel as if my valid requests of speaking slowly and loudly and spelling do indeed offend them, and thus the quality of service dramatically decreases. I become frustrated, as do they. I don't blame the innocent support staff, they are just doing their job to the best of their ability and are human. I blame Dell for not providing the proper training for these people, if they are to troubleshoot the American market, perhaps not only computer classes are relevant, but to ease the stress of their staff, accent reducing classes would be appropriate. I have heard they may have begun that, but for this product loyal consumer it is a bit too late.Honestly, that is just the tip of the iceberg, more a point of frustration. And if you purchase a Dell and it has any sort of issue, you will end up feeling as if you are on the Titanic and are slowly sinking to the demise of your pocketbook and sanity.To make an extremely long story short, we bought a Dell that never worked properly, and were told that if trouble-shooting did not work that we could return it. While talking to tech support we were treated as if we didn't know how to turn it on, and were talked down to on well over 100 phone calls with tech support. Out drama began on the first day of setup and has not ended, and our warranty expired 3 months ago with the same case number as the first day of setup. Ridiculous. We were lied to, made false promises, told a million different things, insulted, and we spent about $1500 for the privilege.We were told that there was nothing wrong with it, that it was us, 4 months and 30 phone calls later it was diagnosed with a bad motherboard. Still didn't work, again we were told firmly that it was not the computer but rather the user, 2 more months and at least 30 more phone calls it was diagnosed as a bad hard drive. Still never worked properly and ever since they replaced the hard drive they will not do anything else, claiming that the motherboard and hard drive are the computer and that there couldn't be anything else wrong - except for the user. I reminded them that they repeatedly told us that if the troubleshooting was not successful we could return the unit - and they had the audacity to tell us we were over our time and that returns need to be within the first 14 days, when we made the original complaint we were well within it!! Talk about pissed off!! We gave them the benefit of the doubt and did as they asked, we were treated as if our heads were firmly planted up our rear ends, we were told that someone would get back to us - and they never did (we heard this at least 75 times). We escalated the case - twice and were met with worse service.Having the same case number since before my warranty expired allows the warranty to continue coverage - but no one will call back, as our issue is so great that they send us to several different departments. As soon as the warranty expired on all other issues, they stopped responding to the same one we have had since the very first day. The last week of October I left no less than 20 messages via email and voice mail with 3 different people and to date have still not received a phone call back, and most were with the people that the case had been escalated to, who are supposed to be professional and extremely qualified. My warranty expired on October 26th while actively dealing with the original issue. I have written letters, I have made phone calls, I have done as much as I have he time to do - and they have never replied. AWFUL!!If you purchase a Dell and it has any kind of issue, you are in for a world of frustration. Like I said, we have 3, and the last one was a horrible experience, the first two never had a problem. I would never purchase another product by Dell. If I could afford to take out a full page ad in the New York Times for a year, I would do it to warn others of this horrible company.If I had been paid a modest wage for the time I wasted dealing with tech support over this computer, I could have easily afforded to purchase a brand new, fully loaded, all the bells and whistles, wonderful customer service with an Apple computer, and still had money left over for a spa day and shopping spree. Plus I wouldn't have pissed away the original $1500 on the doorstop that Dell provided me.RUN! RUN! RUN!Honestly, the worst experience with any company ever.
28 of 35 people found the following review helpful.DELL ELL
By C. Smith
I WROTE 1 STAR BECAUSE YOU CANT GO ANY LOWER. I WISH I HAD READ YOUR REVIEWS BEFOR I BOUGHT FROM WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED DELL ELL. IF I HAD I WOULD NOT HAVE WENT THROUGH 4 MONTHS OF BEING ON THE PHONE NUMEROUS, NUMEROUS HOURS TRYING TO GET THIS FIXED AND I STILL HAVE NOT GOT THROUGH TO ANY ONE WITHOUT GETTING TRANSFERRED, DISONNECTED, AND GIVEN EXT. NO. THAT DON'T EXIST. THE LAST TIME I WAS IN TEARS, BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT TAKE IT BACK. I HAVE OWNED THIS COMPUTER 7 MONTHS. BUYER BEWARE
42 of 54 people found the following review helpful.If you like hard drive failures, you'll love Dell!
By Wally Wilke
My daughter-in-law bought this computer and the hard drive crashed in a few days! Not taking a clue, I bought one and my hard drive crashed in 9 months. Dell techs came to the house and replaced the drives, but it shouldn't have happened to new machines!
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