Re: Slides for last night's talk

Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Hey guys,
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> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:42 +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:
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>>On Thu, 4 May 2006, Tim Allen wrote:
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>>>I've actually been struggling a bit with a "no-one ever got fired for
>>>buying Dell" attitude here, which of course excludes Opterons by
>>>definition. I have sometimes wished I _could_ fire someone for buying
>>>Dell :).
>>
>>Some of them should be. I've had some awful experiences with Dell -- just
>>terrible quality equipment and poor support. I do my most to convince all
>>customers to buy other than Dell now.
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> We have changed over the last few years from Toshiba laptops to Dell
> Laptops. Desktops have been white boxes I have built myself but we are
> now evaluating Dell desktops. I have heard horror stories about Dell
> before but our (limited) experience so far has been quite positive -
> even on the home laptop front (not me) - I assumed they would put more
> effort into the corporate area. We have had a few occasions when they
> were there the next day to fix things, no questions asked almost.
>
> Any more detail from people here?

I think most of the experiences here relate to their servers & their
(under?) performance rather than laptops or desktops.

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