How does anyone get away with some of the things said in this article?

"Fiering said these systems have limited quality assurance programs, having undergone less rigorous testing than corporate hardware which can result in a 50% higher failure rate incurring higher repair costs and user down time."

50% higher failure rate? Is there a study on that? I worked for an organization that bought the Dell Optiplex...supposedly a business grade machine, I believe they were the GX270's at the time. We had to replace an entire order because the motherboard capacitors were blowing, leaking, etc. In fact Dell kept it hush hush and eventually wrote off some 300 million dollars one quarter because of warranty repair work.

The only true difference between the two classes isn't hardware at all, it's the warranty and support and that's it!!!

You can buy a home user PC, upgrade it to XP Pro, a Pentium 4 processor (or whatever is the latest, Core Duo, etc), upgrade the RAM and even buy the 3 or more year warranty.

Hardware is hardware, trust me, the testing they do on home hardware are the same tests they do on "business class" hardware and that's a fact!!!

A two class PC society no longer exists when it comes to hardware, it's support and options, options, options.