Re: Slides for last night's talk

[Chris Smith <chris(at)interspire(dot)com>]

Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:42 +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 4 May 2006, Tim Allen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
>
> 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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