Dell OptiPlex 755 - Office PCs with brawn and brain Review

Dell OptiPlex 755 - Office PCs with brawn and brain

The Dell OptiPlex line has long been synonymous with small business upstarts and staid corporate cubicles alike, and the 755 is no different. The reason is, both groups know what the business PC should be about, data protection, and saving money, and of course, community responsibility.

Lets tackle community responsibility first. You would think that such a big business PC would be a cause for the environmentalists to come screaming to tear your business down, but the Dell OptiPlex 755 Office PCs are both EPEAT Gold and Energy Star 4.0, giving it some of the highest green cred a business PC can get.

That is not to say that this computer workstation is all boring and no go. The Intel Core Duo E4500 CPU bench marked high enough on Office Products testing to impress lonely pencil pushers the world over without a glitch. There is 2GB of DDR2-677 memory passing all of the info, and while I wish it was a bit more, they won't let me play Halo3 at work anyway.

The often overlooked feature in many business desktop PCs is the software that Dell uses to make your life easier. No, I'm not talking about the Yahoo toolbar with minesweeper technology, I mean DataSafe. DataSafe is a lifesaver for anyone using Dell's OptiPlex business desktop PCS by continually and regularly backing up all of the documents of a workers PC. While this might not be as exciting to some people, the idea of being able to purchase a solid business computing platform, complete with data safeguards and a good RAID framework already in place and set up out of the box for a little over $1000, I am usually very happy, and this time is no different, except now, I do not have to also worry about energy efficiency or waste, because its green also. This is a win for Dell, and for anyone who gets one.

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