Hardware vendors

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I
<eoconnor25 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 07/08/2012 12:42 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
>
>> My 7 year old Dell Dimension 8400 is on its last legs, so I thought it
>> time to find something new:
>>
>> 07/07/2012 11:57:40AM Agent (Sagar A): "Hi Steve"
>> 07/07/2012 11:57:42AM Agent (Sagar A): "Welcome to Dell US Chat! My name
>> is Sagar Andreas and I will be your Dell.com Sales Chat Expert.I can be
>> reached at sagar_andreas at dell.com or via phone at
>> *******-*******-*******-********* ext. ******* . How may I help you
>> today?"
>> 07/07/2012 11:58:25AM steve: "I'm pricing out desktop computers. I plan
>> to install Linux. I don't see an option to select "no operating system".
>> Is there a way NOT to pay for Windows?"
>> 07/07/2012 11:58:48AM Agent (Sagar A): "Its my pleasure to have you on
>> my chat line today. I'd be more than happy to assist you."
>> 07/07/2012 11:59:38AM Agent (Sagar A): "Steve i am so sorry we dont have
>> any systems which comes with Linux as call comes with windows OS"
>> 07/07/2012 12:00:01PM steve: "That's a shame. I guess I'm done buying
>> Dells."
>> 07/07/2012 12:01:01PM steve: "bye"
>> 07/07/2012 12:01:44PM Agent (Sagar A): "i am so sorry ..."
>> 07/07/2012 12:01:48PM Agent (Sagar A): "Is there anything else that I
>> can help you with?"
>>
>> Now that I'm done with Dell, I've priced out systems on Ohava, zareason,
>> and System76. The quotes come out with insignificant dollar differences.
>> Do you have any experience with these vendors?
>>
>> A few comments;
>>
>> 1) No, I don't want to assemble my own machine from parts.
>> 2) I plan to install Fedora 17
>> 3) Looking at a quad core i5-3550, 8GB memory, standard "intel advanced
>> graphics" rather than a more expensive Radeon card.
>> 4) 500GB SATA disk
>> 5) mini- or mid-tower case
>>
>>
>>
>>
> My sister purchased a laptop from System76, this was about 2 years ago,
> and it's still alive & kicking with Ubuntu on it. Even though it's not a
> desktop, she DID have to call Customer Service in order to find out what
> happened to the case that she ordered with it, and they were very polite,
> professional, and QUICK! As for the laptop of itself, it's still just as
> fast and efficient as when she got it!....hope this helps!...
>
>
> EGO II
>
>
The only way to get a Dell with Ubuntu installed is/was to call them up
from inside the US. I got mine in this manner; mind you, this was 5-6 years
ago.
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