To use your logic, if someone says to you "Dell Computers are trash. They are horribly bug ridden, use inferior components that constantly break down, and are grossly overpriced" would you buy one? Probably not, even though the person who told you how bad they are has never owned, operated, or even seen a Dell Computer.
Not so, quoth I. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> If someone said to me as you suggested, I would write off everything they said. (In fact, I've done so repeatedly. Not computers, mind you, but a lot of other things.) When the time came to purchase a computer, I would do my own research, including Dell, with no strikes against it.
