I think the office for super cheap bit is over as part of the agreement with the feds. That's why now everyone just supplies that bs 60 day trial of ms office
CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: joeuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:54:25 To:The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] Dell Laptop Batteries Well volume helps but then again so does buying Windows and Office at a buck a copy or whatever. Replacement parts are also where they make money. HP is picking up Dell slack now. The computer is personal again. LOL YEAH. Push 1 for sales Push 2 for Technical support, etc etc. Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 11:10 AM 17/08/2006, joeuser wrote: > >> Dell's going down the shitter also. This is just the tip of the >> iceberg. CRN magazine had a little write up. I stripped naked and >> danced around a pile of Dell catalogs and a laptop like a wild indian >> in celebration. > > > LOL! I love it. I think I'll do that too. :) > > You can only sell so many computers at a $50 profit and expect to > survive. They (and all the other bottom feeders) are idiots. You can > sell a donut with no customer service for no markup, but computers just > don't work that way. The race to the bottom always ends with the > company splattering against the ground. > > T > -- Cheers, joeuser (still looking for the 'any' key)
