Dell just launched their 'Sputnik' developer laptop in the US, (http://dell.com/sputnik) and potential purchasers can configure their purchase online (http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx)
The first two screens in the customization tool are very confusing. The first screen in the 'customizing' tool is for Operating System and shows a Ubuntu logo and offers a non-choice (one radio button filled-in) of UBUNTU Linux. What's especially confusing is the set of features described next to the Ubuntu logo (in the image): ---- featuring Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser, OpenOffice 3.0 for Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Email/Calendaring, and with Photo, Music & Video Applications ---- FF 3.0 was released in June 2008, and OOo 3.0 in October 2008. I'm pretty confident that neither one ships with Ubuntu 12.04. Someone must be using an *ancient* graphic! Moving on to the next page in the customizing tool, labeled "Productivity Software", we see a big graphic of (what else?) Microsoft Office....but it's MS-Office 2010. Oops! The non-choice radio button says "No Productivity Software Requested", which is in direct conflict with the previous screen that indicated that Ubuntu came with OOo 3.0. It's also really confusing in general -- why show a picture of MS-Office, and then have no option to select MS-Office? *headdesk* It would be a big win for everyone if we could get in touch with Ubuntu and Dell and offer to help them update these configuration screens and graphics. Sure, developers aren't necessarily the heaviest users of LO, but it would be nice for the project to get some additional facetime whenever a Sputnik laptop is ordered. If someone has contact info for Canonical or Dell, I'd be happy to take the lead on talking with them. Thanks! -- Robinson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
