[K12OSN] So close....

[Rob Owens]

Speaking of Dell, I've heard and read (but never
experienced it first hand) that some of their hardware
is only upgradeable with other Dell hardware. 
Sometimes because of physical size, sometimes because
the BIOS doesn't allow non-Dell stuff.  Can anybody
confirm this or give further details?

And what about Gateway or other Dell-like
manufacturers?  I imagine they all do the same thing,
but I don't know for sure.

-Rob

--- Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:

> Example...they had 'deals' for Dimension 5150's with
> free 19" LCD's.. 
> for $600...but would not sell them to the school for
> that price...
> This has happened twice in my dealings with Dell...
> 
> I did get 2 sweet rack mounts 1U and 2U servers from
> them for a great 
> price for their configuration though.
> 
> --Huck
> 
> marrandy 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.
> >>
> >> We've tried multiple methods of trying to get
> them to cut us a better
> >> deal, but they just won't cooperate very well
> with us here in Iowa.
> >>
> >> Eric
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > How do you save several hundreds ($600/$700/$800)
> of dollars per machine ?
> > 
> > What   'machine'  are you talking about ?
> > 
> 
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