[ale] stupid pricing games

[Jeff Lightner]

I've been running my company provided Dell Latitude D630 for a couple of
years since my Thinkpad died and don't have any complaints about it.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 5:46 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] stupid pricing games

Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

> Sounds as if your m-i-l got one of their XPS series systems... They
are
> big and ugly but supposedly the best Dell as as they're made for
gamers
> and such. Inspiron series are meant more for a business laptop and a
> step up from the Latitude series. Granted mine isn't as light as my
old
> Sony Vaio PictureBook but it's not as heavy as my old Toshiba
> SatellitePro either... I carried it back and forth every day to work
> until boss offered me a dual-head display workstation if I left it at
> home :)


I thought the Latitude were the "business" grade and Inspiron were the
"home" grade laptops?  Latitude definitely seems to be a step up in
price, anyway.

I've got a Latitude D610, supplied by my employer, that I've been using
happily for SW development for almost four years now.  Anything that
runs acceptably on this machine is gonna fly on real production
hardware.

I liked it enough that I got a second one off eBay for personal use.
Both are still going strong, although I had to get the motherboard
replaced on the work machine due to a failed RAM socket -- but Dell
paid for that under the extended warranty.

-- JK
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