On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick > what broad class of device you want to look at. > > I hate other people's ontologies, sometimes....
Dell is particularly bad when it comes to this. Their various business units and/or sales groups often offer quite disconnected, to the point where the company sometimes seems schizophrenic. Seasoned Dell customers will know you can even get their different sales groups into a bidding war with each other. This might even work for single purchases -- after spec'ing the config you want, save the cart, and then call the phone sales group and see if they can get you a better price. But even in the general case, I suspect most "serious geeks" would be better served by interfacing with all their prospective vendors as if they are a business customer. Consumer/home offerings are generally targeted at people who have a very different set of criteria and goals than most geeks. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
