[ubuntu-uk] ***Regading your email to Dell - incident # 16808254***

[Rob Beard]

On 16/06/10 12:23, Barry Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:09 +0530, Raj_Mohan at Dell.com wrote:
>> Thank you for your email. We are still waiting for the update regarding your proposals and will contact you once we have the update.
>
> Thank you for your reply.  Further update: the UK Dell site now carries
> a range of two netbooks and three laptops that are available with Ubuntu
> installed.  Congratulations!  I have shared this with the UK Ubuntu
> list.  There are two main comments.  First: there is no longer a
> bottom-end netbook to replace the Mini 10v.  Any chance of bringing that
> model back?  It is a great little machine at an amazing price (this is
> what I am using).
>
> Second: The website is very confusing.  Depending on how the site is
> searched, it returns varying numbers of Ubuntu machines.  No Ubuntu
> machines are seen to be available on a search from the Home and Home
> Office pages, but only from the business user pages.
>
> Kind regards,		Barry.

Dell could still do with updating their "Choose Windows or Ubuntu" page...

http://tinyurl.com/yk4oryn

Quote from the site:

WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM SHOULD I CHOOSE ?

UBUNTU is not a Microsoft Windows operating system - and is not 
compatible with Microsoft Office programs - so it's important you make 
the right choice:

Choose WINDOWS if:

     * You are already using WINDOWS programs (e.g. Microsoft Office, 
ITunes etc) and want to continue using them
     * You are familiar with WINDOWS and do not want to learn new 
programs for email, word processing etc
     * You are new to using computers


Choose UBUNTU if:

     * You do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS
     * You are interested in open source programming

To be honest it looks like a pretty poor effort which hasn't been very 
well thought out (on either side!).

I don't see how choosing Windows if you're new to using computers would 
help.  I mean if you're new to computers then you're going to have to 
learn anyway the OS anyway, so using Windows, MacOS X, Linux, even a 
Commodore 64 shouldn't make any difference (okay I wouldn't really 
suggest a C64 for internet browsing).

Rob