There is an interesting article about Dell's customer service in this week's issue of Business Week. It basically states that Dell's customer service has been slipping fast and is currently no better than the industry standard, but Dell promises to return it to their once industry setting standard by hiring 1000 more phone reps.
I bought most of the parts for my computer at General Nano Systems too.
http://www.nanosys1.com/
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