Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred A. Miller wrote:
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> — Dell reports on what it plans to do with this feedback. Quoting: "[W]e 
> are working with Novell to certify our corporate client products for 
> Linux, including our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell 
> Precision workstations. 
<snip>
> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/ideastorm/ideasinaction?c=us&l=en&s=gen 

I was one that made such a request for linux laptops at the Dell site.
So I said to myself, "Let's see what it's gonna cost me".  So I went to 
the linux laptops link

http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries_nb?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

and priced out a D520N Duo linux-ready, not linux-installed, with 
various options: memory, drive, DVD, graphics card.

Then I repeated this exercise by simply going to the Dell site and 
pretended to configure the same machine with Vista installed.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d520?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics 
card, hard drive, DVD.


It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box.  I don't think 
Dell has quite got this worked out yet.

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Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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