Re: [MLUG] new Dell "mini" powered by Ubuntu

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Notice the "may delay ship times".  I didn't know installing an OS  
took 15 days (Man, have I been doing it wrong).  Any suppliers *NIX  
only?  I guess the $$ speaks louder than the OS.

<QUOTE>
Impact to Ship Date
Certain available options (listed below) could delay your Inspiron  
Mini 9 ship date. Option delays are not cumulative; selecting two  
items with four-day delay times should delay your shipment by four  
days, not eight.
Item 	Delay Time*
Mini OS powered by Ubuntu 8.04	15 days
<QUOTE/>

"rude"

Unknowns:  Type of SSD disk and total theoretical max memory?

Oh well...  "My" fictional configuration came out to be $469 (I stuck  
with 512MB, I'd prefer to get a 2GB sodimm from crucial).

George



On Sep 6, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Ryan Thornton wrote:

> If you start at the "build it" link on the Ubuntu page, then add on:
>
> 1 GB DDR2
> 16 GB SSD
>
> it comes out to $449, same as the Windows option with those choices.
>
> So yeah, it's a meddling microsoft "discounted" version.
>
> - Ryan
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Mike Miller  
> <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Jonathan King wrote:
>>
>>> I'm guessing this is not very fast and it may have other issues, but
>>> this is the beginning of something likely very interesting.
>>>
>>> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
>>
>>
>> The vexing thing is that this machine comes with Ubuntu:
>>
>> 512 MB DDR2
>> 4 GB SSD
>>
>> And this machine comes with Windows:
>>
>> 1 GB DDR2
>> 16 GB SSD
>>
>> That's twice the memory and 4 times the disk for only $100 more but  
>> it
>> looks like you have to get Windows to get that $55 discount and a  
>> better
>> computer.  The "Build Yours" link does not offer Ubuntu as an  
>> option for
>> the better machine.  Why is that?  I think the obvious answer is  
>> that we
>> are seeing more Microsoft anticompetitive meddling.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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