[K12OSN] So close....

[Doug Simpson]

We always buy Dell servers and never have OS installed.

I do all my own installs of the OS. . .

Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
Classified Know-Nothing
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Nick Hadgis wrote:

> Accessys at smart.net wrote:
>> biggest problem I have with Dell is they will not sell me a machine
>> without software installed, this is especially a problem with laptops
>> 
>> I am 100% windoze free  and just don't want to be bothered with licenses
>> etc etc etc.  M$ sees the sale and assumes you have bought a license.
>> might be part of the problem with pricing, schools charged more for the
>> software license by M$
>> 
>>  Bob
>> 
>
> Check out this article:
> Dell customer gets Windows refund
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110706-dell-windows.html
>
>
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, David H. Barr wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 11/8/06, marrandy <marrandy at chaossolutions.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 10:41, Eric Brown wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Our problem with dealing with Dell directly is that they will often
>>>>> quote us higher prices than if we were Joe Public walking in off the
>>>>> street.  Our principal has even resorted to using his personal credit
>>>>> card and purchasing computers to save several hundreds of dollars per
>>>>> machine.
>>>>> 
>>>> How do you save several hundreds ($600/$700/$800) of dollars per machine 
>>>> ?
>>>> 
>>>> What   'machine'  are you talking about ?
>>>> 
>>> Typically it's not so much (in my experience) that Dell explicitly
>>> charges edu/npo -more-, per se.  It's just that their pricing
>>> structure is heavily dependent on deep discounts, not all of which
>>> apply for a particular config in the home/smb/premiere sites.
>>> 
>>> When I was in the nonprofit sector, I would typically end up a)
>>> determining what spec machine I wanted, b) carting it up in home and
>>> small business desktop and workstation lines, and c) sending the
>>> lowest of those four quotes to my representative who would typically
>>> match or beat it.
>>> 
>>> It was a tedious process, but could frequently get my desktop orders
>>> down several hundred.  When you're buying $300 desktops and slapping
>>> charity licensing on them though, the wiggle room is fairly small.
>>> 
>>> -dhbarr.
>>> 
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