Hello
  It may also be worthwhile to remember that Dell uses proprietary hardware
which is often impossible to upgrade, or at the very least extremely
limited.  This is not a Dell "feature" alone as it exists in many
major system builders, but afaik few besides Dell even limit what power
supplies one can use to their own.  Personally I choose to boycott
companies that change things merely to avoid compatibility with no sight
toward improvement of any kind other than attempting to "improve"
the likelihood you must buy from them.  IMHO that sort of
"improvement" should rightfully backfire.
  This doesn't even touch on the problem of drivers, firmware, etc. for
unnecessarily proprietary hardware.  That is another problem even for those
using a mainstream Op Sys, let alone we red-headed step-children wo choose
otherwise.
Jimmy

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From: John Stewart 
> Julian Thomas wrote:
> > Anyone have any experience (good, bad or indifferent) with these?  I'd be
> > inclined to go for one of the business machines (optiplex).
> 
> My recent experience was pretty negative. We bought five refurb'd 
> PowerEdge servers for work.
> 
> In the six months since we bought them, one had a motherboard component 
> failure, and one of the other ones just lost its serial port.
> 
> Both were covered under warranty, so they were both repaired free 
> on-site (I should say replaced on-site) but it wasn't exactly a ringing 
> quality endorsement IMO, small sample size notwithstanding.
> 
> John
> 
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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