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to: Robert Comer
from: Richard B.
date: 2004-12-08 11:16:20
subject: Re: End of an era?

From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:32:03 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>He's a salesman now, so you know how that goes...

Sales is a tough job, so it's good he's got a decent product to push.

>We don't have anything like that here, but if I were buying another server
>right now, it'd have to be a whole lot cheaper for me to consider another
>brand.  Same for laptops.

I'll price out the various options and see what looks good.  Dells usually
seem to find the sweet spot.

>Now their desktop PC's, I'm not so wild about, nothing special there, I can
>build better ones myself.  That's what we mostly have here, but that's more
>because they're not quite as messy from the store as a consumer brand PC.

I spec mine out and have the local shop build them, I like the service
afterwards when things go horribly wrong.

- Richard

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