Dell Inc —
It’s taken a long time, but Linux is finally to be offered on laptops and desktops targetted at consumers by Dell (see the CNET story). Dell has chosen the popular and consumer-friendly desktop Linux distro, Ubuntu. It will be interesting to see the uptake.
Please note - consumers buying Ubuntu Linux laptops and desktops won’t be [...]
Around the beginning of March, I wrote that flash memory prices were now at a level where we could expect mainstream laptop makers to start offering solid state flash drives. Yesterday, Dell announced that laptops with flash solid state drives (SSDs) were available to order in the US (and will be available soon in [...]
Dell Inc. today announced it has teamed up with Skype to preload Skype software on its PCs; and just recently, Dell announced it would preload its computers with the Google toolbar. I have a message for Dell: we may be going to stop buying Dell PCs. Why? Because this every-increased pre-loading [...]
Sun Microsystems Inc and other computer hardware vendors could really learn a lot from Dell Inc. It’s pretty hard to buy from companies like Sun. You need to book appointments to see pre-sales experts, and talk to value-added resellers etc. Not that these guys don’t do a good job. It’s just [...]