My current job uses Lenovo and I haven't been very impressed with their reliability so far. It makes me wish we had some Dell PCs here...
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IMHO, it is up to the IT director to figure out what they will be using. If you are looking for a certain configuration find the best off-lease at least one generation back. The companies that overspend on their technology encourage companies like Dell to empower Intel and tell us how much "cutting-edge" technology we need and at what price.
Once we use multiple vendors for product specific items we will greatly decrease this ignorance to fault capacitors. It is like the new GM collapse. Rubycon, Panasonic, and Nichicon will become standard practice, even if they have to buy up their competitors and take over the plants that make their designs but with seriously inferior standards.