[ale] stupid pricing games

[Scott McBrien]

No Dell laptops!!!!!!  They suck!

The above statement uses the following selection criteria:
Portability (weight)
Ruggedness
Reliability
Quality Parts and availability of IDENTICAL parts upon warranty repair
Cost

I've been a very happy thinkpad user until recently ( I got a  
MacBook), and recommend them over all others.  I've had Dells, HPs,  
and Toshibas, by far the thinkpad was the most resilliant for being  
dragged around through airports and customer sites.  Dells don't even  
enter my conciousness for laptops, servers is another story.

You may have noticed that coat was at the bottom if that list, I do  
end up paying a little more, but I need my laptop to be operational  
99.999% of the time, so to me it's worth it.

-Scott

On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking at that option. There are some slight hardware differences
> in that the Inspiron (vista) has a smaller, lower res screen. The
> smaller same res screen is $20 less between the Latitudes. It just
> galls me forking over a single cent to microsoft.
>
> The same Latitude E5400 with vista home is $699 - so $40 for  
> vista?!?!?
> There is a model number difference E5400N vs. E5400 . Does the "N"
> means "No Windows"?
>
> They _do_ have an Inspiron 15n (no windows?) with Ubuntu. But the cpu
> choices are more limited - $489 vs. $529 with the same cpu on the
> vista version.
>
> So why can't I get the same _HARDWARE_?!?!?
>
> Oh. Because then I could run PERFORMANCE TESTS and publish them.
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ned Williams<nedj10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ever since Dell started offering MS alternatives they have always  
>> been
>> higher priced for some mysterious reason.
>>
>>
>> Without sounding like a smart alec? Doesn't it save you money to  
>> buy the
>> vista machine, install what you want and then try for the windows  
>> refund?
>> worst case is you don't get the refund? But you still get the  
>> cheapest
>> machine?
>>
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