In 1988, the rebranded from PC's LImited to Dell, and started most of their current products lines in the early 1990's including the Latitude Laptop Line, Precision high end workstations, PowerEdge servers, Inspiron budget laptops, Dimension and OptiPlex mid-tier Desktops, and others. The 1990's was ruled mostly by "white box" clone computers though, and during that time, Compaq and IBM, the former leaders of the Business Market, started to die down due to many business guffaws and bad choices.

So in 2001, secondary market leader Compaq was sold to Hewlett Packard (these days just referred to as H.P.), while in 2004, IBM Sold it's "PC Division" to Lenovo. Gateway 2000 had rebranded as Gateway in 1998, rescinded all of it's sales to Europe, so that took out most of the major American brands that were well known. Leaving Dell as the only real competitor in and from America at that point.

Over the 2000's, as I started my I.T. career that supports my running this website, I watched as Dell took over as the dominant brand in business for computing (along side HP). I'm typing this ON a Dell Laptop. The first two major I.T. projects I did was replacing old computers in the AUburn School System with brand new Dell OptiPlex GX260 units imaged with Norton Ghost. I was a Dell Warranty Repair specialist in 2005, and worked for many companies who were "Dell Houses" (in I.T., we use the term "(brand) house" to refer to what our usual in-house OEM is). I also spent 7 years at Microsoft, which is a multi-OEM shop (Dell, Lenovo, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, ASUS, and of course Microsoft's own Surface devices) working on a heaping ton of Dell equipment. Also, I have three Dell Laptops at home, and my home server is a Dell PowerEdge from 2014.

For me, I have no loyalty to a specific brand to be honest, because all the brands make good equipment and bad equipment. An example of some excellent Dell computers are: OptiPlex GX960, DImension 4600, Latitude E7240, Latitude E6400 & E6410 (actually the whole E-series save for the E4200 are rock solid), OptiPlex 7010 series (the famous "Hair Bands" Chassis, more on those later), Precision 5520 and XPS 9550, Precision 390, Precision 4600, Precision 3260. There were also some real sinkers such as that aforementioned Latitude E4200 (failing proprietary SSDs), the circa 2013 Watercooled Alienware PC's (adhesive would get stuck in the cooling fins inside the liquid cycled heatsink causing them to overheat), Precision 5530 (batteries, USB-C ports, and mine's graphics card blew up as soon as the Warranty expired), Inspiron 15 (I bought one new for my wife in 2013, it died three years later). So there's good Dells, and Bad Dells - just like any other brand. I'm typing this on an XPS 13 from 2015, which is a real diamond in the rough having lived through the Windows 8/USB-C Dock era of the 2010's at Microsoft when all that stuff was just starting and really janky at times.

Inspiron - The inspiron line is a line of inexpensive to mid-tier consumer class laptop computers usually sold wholesale at places like Wal-Mart, Office Depot, and Best Buy. Chances are, you've probably seen quite a lot of these, as they are one of the most popular "home" laptops on the market. Typically they run a Core i3 or i5 CPU, have the average amount of memory out of the box, run whatever the Home or Pro editions of Microsoft Windows happens to be at a time, and they tend to live the regular consumer cycle (3-5 years) - though a lot tend to last longer than that once some crazy like me gets his hands on them.

Latitude - Latitude is Dell's Mid-Tier Professional line of laptops meant for Enterprise. You see them at home too (usually because local computer shops re-sell corporate excess assets that are donated to them and repaired). The Latitude started with the 386 based 3-series in 1991, and currently is recycling model numbers on new laptops from the previous E-series minus the "E". The C-series was the first most popular Dell Laptops in business, starting around 1999 or so, eventually leading to the much better built D-series (some real standouts are the D600 series models ie. D610/620/630), followed by the E-series in 2007 (my faves ar ethe E6400, E6410, E6440, E7240, and E7440 - I've had either personally or professionally, almost all of these except the 6410), and currently the 7000 series which repeats model numbers minus the E, starting with the 7x80 models. The second digit of the model# is screen size ie.: 2=12", 4=14", 5=15" and so on.

OptiPlex - This is the desktop line equal to the Latitude Laptop line. These started in the 1990's with 486 based machines around 1992, and have continued on through today. Starting around 2000 or so, they started codenaming their chassis with interesting code-names, and each variant of that chassis was named after something associated with that code name - and that series was usually shared with the Precision line as well. For example, older Dell systems from the 2000's were called the "Matrix Chassis" models, named after characters from The Matrix ie "Neo" or "Morpheus". After that in 2007 came the "Hair Bands" chassis named after all sorts of 80's Hair Bands such as "Great White" and "