On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 12:42 -0400, 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@xxxxxxxx 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 I don't know the above-mentioned vendors, but I've had good experiences with aslab.com. They were one of the early Linux specialist vendors. I bought my first system from them in the mid-1990s with Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 and my most recent system two years ago. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
