Why OptiPlexTM 

Why OptiPlex<sup><small>TM</small></sup> 

New OptiPlex BTX Chassis Design

As your technology partner, Dell strives to offer solutions that enable you to maintain compliance, ease deployment, reduce down time and improve productivity, providing maximum return on your technology investment. OptiPlex's image management and transition management tools and industry-standard technologies enable you to get the most out of your technology investment.

Why Buy OptiPlex?

Stability

Stability

OptiPlex Desktops are designed to make deployment and management simple by taking the worry out of managing your computing environments. What makes OptiPlex the stable desktop choice?

  • Extended purchase availability and managed product transitions help minimize costs and headaches. Over the past 7 years, OptiPlex desktops have averaged a 15 month lifecycle.
  • Dell ImageWatchTM  image management tool helps ensure system changes and updates will never be a surprise. You will be notified months before changes happen.
  • Global standard configurations are available to simplify global deployment and management.
  • A Download of Altiris® Local RecoveryTM  is available at no additional cost, which allows users to create local backup images, incrementally back up data and recover data with a single keystroke.
  • Dell's Stable Image Assurance Program is designed to lower ownership costs by taking away the worry and inconvenience associated with required hard drive image changes.
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Reliability and Durability

Reliability and Durability

OptiPlex Desktops deliver the best customer experience in the markets we serve by delivering reliable, high quality technology.

The Process
We've developed a highly effective, dynamic process by which we help ensure the highest quality assurance from our suppliers while constantly honing our products to meet customer needs:
Manufacturing
Quality
Customer
Experience
Customer
Feedback
Advantage of Dell's
Direct Model
Supplier relationships begin with factory visits and surveys, during which Dell performs a stringent quality audit and, upon approval, establishes tough manufacturing standards.Dell collects extensive customer experience data to assess satisfaction and quality.Customer feedback data is used to continually hone and improve the manufacturing process.Dell maintains minimal product inventory, so product improvements are passed on to the customer immediately.
The Result
Cutting-edge advances in design, performance and functionality
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Usability

Serviceability & Usability

Through Customer Driven Innovation, the new generation of OptiPlex Desktops is designed to simplify serviceability and use.

Tool-less Chassis
Tool-less Chassis
Easy access allows less downtime for improved productivity.                        
Blue Color Coding
Components that can be removed without tools are colored blue.                        
QuietCaseTM  Hard Drive Mount
Minimizes vibration to help improve reliability and provide quieter operation.      
Direct DetectTM 
Provides quick and convenient status of your hard drive activity and network connectivity.
Usability at your fingertips
Front accessible USB ports and jacks for easy access and installation and removal of USB.
Innovative Small Form Factor and Ultra Small Form Factor All-In-One Options
Great for environments with space constraints including call centers, point of sale, healthcare, and education.
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Manageability

Manageability

The ultimate goal of systems management is to yield the greatest amount of productivity from IT investments while consuming the minimum amount of administration and support costs.

                                                    Why Manage Your Client Systems?

To Know Your Assets
With Dell OpenManageTM , customers can collect hardware and software information to better rationalize the need for hardware refreshes, comprehend support requirements, prepare environment for operating system or software migration, more effective lease management.

To Keep your Systems Tuned
With Dell OpenManage customers can remotely flash one or all client systems to the latest available BIOS, update drivers to prepare for OS migration or to keep the system up-to date with the latest software revisions. Customers can also remotely change BIOS settings such as; modify the boot order, enable WoL, disable ports, and much more.

To Keep Your Systems Healthy
With Dell OpenManage, customers can proactively address issues to reduce system downtime for mission critical systems, reduce onsite visits and maintain satisfied end-users
Learn More About Dell OpenManage

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Security

Security

OptiPlex Desktops are designed to provide security in today's complex environments. Dell understands that security is not a "one size fits all" solution, and we offer real world options that can be customized to meet your unique needs.

Dell offers chassis intrusion alerting!, chassis locks and cable locks; Solid solutions that help keep your desktops and valuable data from walking out the door.
OptiPlex offers an affordable smart card keyboard option for user authentication as well as TPM 1.2 standard on all new OptiPlex GX620 models for advanced system authentication. OptiPlex also offers a variety of user authentication software solutions for additional protection when passwords alone aren't enough.
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