Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 9:44:07 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> > Furthermore, against what soem people here experience, I am situated
> > in germany, visited the Dell US Website, that charges dollars, not Euros.
> >
> > And as pointed out, I could configure and move to my cart ubuntu with
> > 16GB ssd, bluetooth, vga, warranty extension, memory upgrde for $ 622
> >
> > So I can only conclude that Dell offers Europeans a different US
> > website that they have for Americans? Hard to believe, I think.
>
>  
> Sort of...  Art's talking about Business purchases.  In actual fact, at the
> Business part of the site, _every_ company sees a slightly different
> website - and hardware available to one company may not be available to
> another.  I'm sure Art could go to the same site as you, but he wouldn't
> get the same deal he gets for company purchases (which is sometimes no deal
> at all - I've heard people complaining that the government standing offer
> for monitors only allows purchasers to pay about 50% more for the monitor
> than they could pay by walking into a Future Shop or Best Buy) - and they
> can't have a 22" LCD at all.

Derek is correct.  

However, I have found that I can get ubuntu with the largest drive.  This is 
hidden from us, though.  If I choose the unit with the largest drive and XP, 
I cannot change the OS, but if I choose the ubuntu unit with the smallest 
drive, I can upgrade the drive.  Go figure.


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