7 Jan
2010
7 Jan
'10
7:39 p.m.
On 1/7/2010 1:14 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
Low-end (read: cheap) Dell laptops tend to be junk. Dell is somewhat between a rock and a hard place WRT selling computers with an O/S *other* then MS-Windows, due to M$ OEM licensing. Also, Dell (and other makers) have had troubles with people chosing the *cheaper* Ubuntu computers only to discover that MS-Windows software not working on them and returning them as 'defective' (this is probably a mis-information issue by the marketing people).
I don't think the return issue is actually true: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/dell_reality_linux_windows_netbooks/
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Les Mikesell
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