On Wed, September 21, 2005 23:38, Randomthots wrote: > But I'm not quite sure why a Dell would be any more "proprietary" than > anything you could roll-your-own.
Lucky you. I can tell you from experience Dell's are way more quirky than others (brand or whiteboxes). They often use exotic hardware no one else will touch because it costs a few cents less and Dell is about cutting corners (for example, if nVidia got a stockpile of problem video cards no one buys it will offload it to Dell at a discount price) Of course what they don't tell you is OS drivers will have no end of trouble trying to handle this later. (Windows and Linux alike). When you have a labful of Dell boxes the current vanilla Windows or Linux can't boot on you get pretty mad. -- Nicolas Mailhot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
