My main use of Dell Enterprise Laptops is regular day-to-day work with Excel, Google Sheets, Google Mail, and regular office use. I am not doing any specific applications; it is just office and web-based work. I use Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and regular office work. I am not doing any 3D design or that kind of work; it is more regular office tasks.
The feature I liked the most about Dell Enterprise Laptops was the quality of the keyboard.
Except for those memory allocation problems, it worked really flawlessly. What I really liked is when I was working externally and had to plug in an HDMI cable, I could just put it in and it immediately worked. I do quite a lot of presentations at other partners and distributors, and you come in 10 to 20 minutes before the event starts and you need to be sure that you open it, plug it in, and it works. Dell Enterprise Laptops delivered on this nine and a half out of 10 times. If it wasn't working, then it was a Microsoft update again.
What I did not like was the quality of the touchpad.
Dell Enterprise Laptops handled the workload I had initially, but over time it got really slow when I was in a Teams meeting and had to open some Google Sheets or Excel sheets at the same time. I do not think that has to do with Dell Enterprise Laptops itself, but I think that has to do with the resource allocation which Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Excel are doing at the same time. That was really frustrating as it took an enormous amount of time. That is when I reached out to IT to see whether we could do an update with additional memory, and that is when I got advice to switch to something else.
If you would have asked me two weeks ago that question, I would probably have said that I really appreciated Dell Enterprise Laptops. But in the last couple of months, I ran into a lot of problems from a resources and memory perspective, which I do not think has anything to do with the device. It is more a Microsoft resources allocation thing. The funny thing is that I was given another device which runs a different OS, which performed faster and better with less memory. I do not think it is a hardware problem. I used to sell hardware myself, so I am completely convinced that it has to do with Microsoft and allocation of resources. I was very happy with Dell Enterprise Laptops, but my current device is way faster.
I am not sure if Dell Enterprise Laptops will need to improve their hardware in some way to keep up with the others because I do not know the Dell hardware well enough. If I was given a device, I looked into that. But if I would look at what is the story with regards to what I thought, if I would have taken my old Dell Latitude and I turned it around, I looked at the bottom and I could see 'memory upgrade here,' I would probably have taken a screwdriver, opened it, added an NVMe chip or something else to it, and it would probably have boosted it again. Now I looked at it and I thought this is something I really need to start opening systems, which I am not going to do.
If there is an easy-to-use memory update and upgrade possibility without an engineer or screwdrivers, then that would definitely have helped me because then I most likely would not have reached out to my team and I would go on a marketplace or Amazon, look for a memory module which would have fitted, and I would just have bought it personally without my HQ department interfering and I would have added the memory, and I would have been good to go again. Now I looked at it and I thought I am not going to solve this; I need to reach out. Then you reach out, and they say 'Okay, listen, we are kind of converting to MacBook Pros now; we will send you a MacBook Pro.'
I have been using Dell Enterprise Laptops for the last one and a half to two years.
I did not use customer support at any point.
I was given Dell Enterprise Laptops and the moment I was given it, I was told that it was completely pre-installed, but something went wrong, so in the end, I deployed it myself.
From an experience perspective, it was a hassle, but that does not have anything to do with the device itself. That is poor provisioning from my head office to the local subsidiary where they thought they were sending a perfectly pre-provisioned laptop which was not. I had to figure out all these things myself in the first two to three days you start working for a company. That has nothing to do with the device; that is policy and readiness and enablement from our own company, which was kind of poor. But Dell Enterprise Laptops itself immediately booted and started, and that went all.
I did not use documentation to help myself; I used my phone to call the support team.
It was not the Dell support team.
I think there are a lot of users who just say 'Okay, it is not working anymore. Here you go. Give me another one.' I used to work for Microsoft myself, so I am quite familiar with the Windows OS. In the end, if I could have accelerated Dell Enterprise Laptops again, I would have kept it because the keyboard was good and everything was working quite fine. My review rating for Dell Enterprise Laptops is 9.