Dell's Web Site Survey Just 5 Minutes (Yeah, Right)

I was waiting for some clients to join a conference call this afternoon and decided to check out a couple of options for replacing my home PC.  It's nearly six years old now, and its fan is about as noisy as I can imagine tolerating.  It takes forever to render videos, and it can't even really show full screen video while running anything else.  So I made my way to the Dell web site, looking to learn a little about the newest hardware.

Now, I wasn't planning to purchase today.  Just learn about which Dell models might be good for video and photo editing.  What base model would be best for this sort of thing and roughly how much might it cost?  I know that Apple has great options for this -- I've seen lots of professionals using Apple hardware to do pretty sophisticated video editing and rendering.  I just wanted to know if there were any PC-based options from Dell, which supplied all my prior home PCs.  I don't really want to make the switch to Apple's proprietary and closed system (even though I know some of you will tell me I'm crazy).

I won't bore you with the details.  If you're really interested, try going to Dell.com and finding out about which machines would be best for video editing and rendering.  If you figure it out, tell me the trick.

For the first time, I filled out one of the site surveys that is generated from a web pop-up ad.  Very interesting.  The first page promised it would take no more than five minutes to complete.  The full survey can be found on the survey page (link), or downloaded directly here.  See if you think you could run through it in under five minutes and provide thoughtful feedback.

I can count about a dozen completely silly questions here.  One more example of a request for me to invest lots of time helping a company I don't have faith will listen or follow up.  Really too bad.