[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Dell (revisited) ....

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 29 May at 15:23, Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

> On Saturday 29 May 2010 15:10:40 Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:18 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
> > > > On 28 May 2010 14:21, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >>         There you go:
> > >>         http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/ceoemail.html
> > >> 
> > > > Wonderful!  Thanks for that.  I've e-mailed Michael Dell with a
> > > > very polite e-mail, and I've bookmarked the page.  Now I'll wait
> > > > eagerly for a reply.  If there's anything of interest I'll copy
> > > > it here.
> > >> 
> > > > Thanks, Barry Drake.
> > > 
> > > And I've emailed Canonical, to suggest they update the website as
> > > Dell don't supply Ubuntu machines in the UK. Those on the US site
> > > look quite nice ...
> > 
> > As far as I can see, they do, and your actions are very unhelpful.
> > 
> > Here are the results of going to www.dell.co.uk and searching for
> > the single word "ubuntu":
> > 
> >
http://search.euro.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=uk&l=en&cs=&k=ubuntu&cat=a
> > ll&x=0&y=0
> > 
> > Note, no less than 7 different models.
> 
> Have you actually tried clicking on them though? Most of them only
> have the option of selecting Windows XP or 7, as far as I can see the
> only 2 that have Ubuntu on them are the Latitude 2100 and 2110.

Agreed and I took the order to the stage of Add to Basket (with Ubuntu
9.04) and this was accepted.  So the above statement of "Dell don't
supply Ubuntu machines in the UK" is false, much as it might be very few
Ubuntu machines.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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