[ale] stupid pricing games

[Jim Kinney]

replacing a T20. Yes. It's _still_ working. Just too slow and
underpowered for the needs. Looking at the thinkpads but they ALL pay
to M$. yuck.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Scott McBrien<smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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