Part of my role was office sysadmin during that time. We switched from IBM machines to Dell machines right about then, and pretty much all of them failed with b

Part of my role was office sysadmin during that time. We switched from IBM machines to Dell machines right about then, and pretty much all of them failed with bulging capacitors. Unfortunately, Dell support made me go through the whole rigamarole of reseating the (two!) processors, switching them, moving RAM, before agreeing that the board was bad. I've refused to even consider Dell ever since then. I mentioned this to our VP of development once, and was sympathetic to the idea that this was something out of Dell's control. He was NOT sympathetic to it at all. Apparently IBM had refused shipment of the same capacitors, because they actually tested them.