Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:31 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote: count me in on this Me too! :) I'm after a desktop. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
really did hit the spam button in gmail I'l take my chances buying on my own thanks... On 08/08/07, Darren Mansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:31 +0100, Josh Blacker wrote: count me in on this Me too! :) I'm after a desktop. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Matthew G Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44(0)7739 785 249 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
On 8/7/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hit the 'report spam' button in gmail... /joke I'm interested in getting a new desktop for/in september so count me in on this - does the offer extend to monitors and accessories when buying as well? I've only got my laptop at the moment so no peripherals. Ditto. Although one area of interest to me is the onboard modem - does this mean Dell will be doing away with gawdawful winmodems and including a proper one? John -- John Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nelefa.org Dreamers come and go, but a dream's forever. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
John Dow wrote: On 8/7/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hit the 'report spam' button in gmail... /joke I'm interested in getting a new desktop for/in september so count me in on this - does the offer extend to monitors and accessories when buying as well? I've only got my laptop at the moment so no peripherals. Ditto. Although one area of interest to me is the onboard modem - does this mean Dell will be doing away with gawdawful winmodems and including a proper one? I recall reading that they have a driver specifically for the onboard winmodem. I think it is available on the dell linux support website, and is stated as being model specific. (all IIRC) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it? On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:16 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: [ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Alec Wright wrote: Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it? As in the hardware? I would expect that would void the warranty -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:25 +0100, James Grabham wrote: Alec Wright wrote: Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it? As in the hardware? I would expect that would void the warranty Yes, as in the hardware. But no, it wouldn't. Dell let you customise it before you buy. That's the customisation I mean. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
[ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Nik, Thanks for making this offer. I'm not in the slightest opposed to you making a percentage if it means that I (we?) get a cheaper price than I could have gotten by going direct. One of the things I found irritating about the US Dell offer was that the PCs were the same price, whether they came with Vista or Ubuntu. Under those circumstances, the pragmatic thing most people new to Ubuntu would be tempted to do would be to buy a Vista PC, and install Ubuntu on it, either as a dual boot, or as an only O/S (but secure in the knowledge they had a Dell Vista restore disk to fall back on.) This may be the pragmatic thing to do, but it distorts the market figures, and makes Dell believe that there is a smaller Ubuntu market than there really is :-( There seem to be three reasons Dell might expect to charge the same price: 1: Bloatware on Windows. While we hate it, the revenue that Dell gets from it exceeds the Windows licencing cost, so that effectively the bloatware manufacturers are providing Windows for free for us :-) Now that Dell have reduced the amount of bloatware they ship, these economics are changing. 2: A belief that Ubuntu will be costly on the part of Dell to support, since they'll have to retrain staff in it. (My own experience of running IT teams, by the way, is that many of them, even in Windows-only work environments are linux users, and would jump at the chance to support linux in the office!) 3: A belief that many PCs sold with Linux end up with pirated copies of Windows installed on them. I'm afraid that I know many people who run pirated Windows, sometimes knowingly, sometimes in the belief that they've bought a legitimate licence from a computer fair! If you could impress upon your contacts at Dell that: - Ubuntu-UK is willing and able to provide technical support to people! - Many of us genuinely want a Linux PC, and not a set of Windows ready hardware :-) Regards, Mark Nik Butler wrote: [ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Nik Butler wrote: [ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler I will want a desktop soon to show support for the dell move, and in principle would be very happy to include you in the loop. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Hit the 'report spam' button in gmail... /joke I'm interested in getting a new desktop for/in september so count me in on this - does the offer extend to monitors and accessories when buying as well? I've only got my laptop at the moment so no peripherals. Cheers, On 8/7/07, Nik Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Josh Blacker http://jerichokb.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
