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It also seems I can't buy a new computer from Dell without Vista. I wish they would give you a choice of OS's. I would prefer XP for now until I'm more certain about Vista. Maybe I'll check Gateway. And if not, then it looks like I'm going to have to build a whole new rig myself.
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Not anymore. Heard Dell was re-releasing XP
And beleive this! THey are releasing a system with Ubuntu on it! That's an about face!
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/s...=19&l=en&s=dhs
Does that blow your mind or what?
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Good. This makes good business sense. I might actually buy a new computer from them after all. |
Don't!
I even asked their rep to quit calling me. I have two laptops here that they used proprietary ATI GPU's on (when they didn't have to), and they never once updated the drivers, yet force you to use Dell drivers to make it function. I paid $3K for each of these machines, so why can't they just give me a little support? So I tried 3 times for them to update the drivers, and 3 times they were all over it and dropped the ball. So I told them I would never buy from them again and to quit bugging me. They still send me email about the great business deals you can get, but without support, whats the point? Whatever rep I am assigned to at a given time (they change yearly I think) still tries to call me occasionally, but I feed him the same story over and over. They keep vowing to fix it and create a special driver just for me, but why should I be needing to ask in the first place??!!! They should do this automatically for anyone who got this GPU!
I managed to find a way to hack the generic drivers to work on it, but its very picky and allows you to select out of spec resolutions and such - and if you select the wrong thing, there is no going back without major work to get it working again.
Anyway - the reason Dell is cheap on prices is because they are also cheap on support. If you don't have to support the product you sell, you can sell it at a greater discount, no?
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