[Discuss] new CSC labs

[pzelnip at telus.net]

Paul Nienaber wrote:
> David Bronaugh wrote:
>> Dell though. Ugh. I'm not impressed by pretty much anything about Dell.
> 
> The motivation seems to be avoiding:
> 
> a) the garbage that Discovery sold them (and no, this isn't libel, I can 
> back that one up), which they figure any other local computer store 
> represents a risk of (and they're probably right -- it's hard to keep 
> competent people around and turn a profit).
> b) fly-by-night VARs over in Richmond, etc -- e.g. Tandex, who appear to 
> have gone out of business and taken their warranties with them.  Of 
> course, I would find it terribly funny if Dell did the same thing.

I had a conversation with one of the SENG techs when they were putting the new
Dell machines in the SENG labs and they basically said the same thing that the
machines they got from Discovery were crap, and they decided to go with Dell
more for support reasons than anything else.

One other thing that they really like about the Dells (and I have to agree with
them on this) is that they are *QUIET*.  After playing around in the SENG labs I
wanted one for home to replace my P4 3GHz machine with it's noisy fan. =8-p
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Adam Parkin
pzelnip at telus.net
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