RE: Trying to game on a Dell All-in-One Office PC
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I've never been a fan of Dell computers and this is proof why I'm not. They sell really poor quality products at expensive prices. An average gaming PC can give much more performance than this. Not only for games but also for office work.
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Indeed! Any other brand or even custom built PCs sold by small reputable stores would be better.
Not to mention that by buying from small reputable stores you're helping break the stronghold of these overpriced companies and are easily upgradable and recyclable later on to become capable gaming machines.
Dell used to be good at this with the old Optiplex PCs, but they've fallen a long way.
I guess it really depends on the era of Dell you are talking about. Nothing beats building your own but Dell made pretty good PCs through at least the Pentium III era (though I always preferred Gateway 2000 then) but have been more hit or miss since. I loved their Sandy Bridge to Haswell era Precision notebooks (portable workstations really). I have also liked certain XPS desktop models over the years but I don't know about recently. Certain older Precision and Optiplex desktops are really good as well. I did buy an Alienware laptop a couple of years ago and it seems to be decent quality. However, the newest Dell desktop I've worked with is probably 10 years old. All-in-one's are almost always a poor buy no matter who makes them, including Apple. Why confine yourself to laptop hardware in a desktop? Too limited, too hard to repair and too hard to upgrade.