A bit more like it.

David Bandel david.bandel
Mon Jan 29 16:46:25 PST 2007


On 1/29/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >On Monday 29 January 2007 11:31 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >> I personally do not like Dell, but for those who do:
> >>
> >> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us&cs
> >>=19&l=en&s=dhs
> >
> >It strikes me that if they offer no support on the box, that they've
> >dramatically reduced their overall costs on this thing.  Therefore,
> >they should be nearly giving the thing away.  This is a no-risk move.
> >They tell their marketing guys to post the web page.  If they sell six
> >boxes, they covered their investment to compose the page.  The rest is
> >gravy.
>
> Now if they would provide laptops with eraser button mouse pads :-).
>

This is the main reason I buy Dell laptops -- the nice Synaptics
touchpad.  I hate the erasers -- too hard to use.  (Ugh - me vi, you
emacs - ugh).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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