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We have Dell servers, laptops, PC's at work. 70+ employees.
Many working from home remotely.
Marketing department does use Apple, but that's for graphics is all.

Never have has a problem with the Dell brand. I wouldn't blow them off because of one negative reviewer on a car forum.

What do you currently have? Year, Brand, model, processor, memory, hard drive?

And what do you want?
Are you just going to be doing Excel worksheets, word processing? Or do you want great graphics, video, sound? Solid state drive? Memory is interesting, get as much as you can afford, but not less than 16GB, I would at least try for 32GB. But there is decreasing marginal utility... You might notice a huge difference between 8GB, 16GB to 32GB but not notice a difference between 32GB versus 64GB....

Do you also want a docking station? That's how my work computer is set up. I can go back and forth office/home/office/home....
Dual monitors, printers, etc....

I find (using a lot of different devices) it gets to the "feel" of the keyboard, mouse... Some are clunky, others smooth as silk. Kind of like cars... or motorcycles..
You want one that suits you...