-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Levin wrote: > Bruce Beardall wrote: >> The new Mini Inspiron 9 is out. >> >> Thanks to Engadget, the link to the Ubuntu flavoured US version is here: >> http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19&kc=6f961&oc=dnpcxw1&x=7&y=8 >> >> <http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=19&kc=6f961&oc=dnpcxw1&x=7&y=8> >> >> But only a WinXP version on the UK site: >> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&ref=homepg >> >> <http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&ref=homepg> >> >> It's just not good cricket if you ask me. > > According to http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=103918 > a version with Ubuntu will shortly be available, for £30 less than the > XP version.
Bizarrely the US version doesn't seem to be available *with* Windows XP, there's only "powered by Ubuntu 8.04" as an option - and given there is only the single choice it seems odd that they add the comment "May delay your Inspiron Mini 9 ship date"! Having just played with the ordering process a bit I was also intrigued to note that the UK version allows for no adjustment of the specification, where the US does. Thankfully it is supplied at the highest specification. I also note that where the US site quotes $349 (about £197) compared to the £299 on the UK site, if you actually bring the US machine up to the UK specification it rises to $494 (about £279), plus whatever mark up they would add for Windows XP if they offered it. If you work to the suggested £30 discount for the Linux version in the UK, that would put the US version at around a tenner dearer than here in the UK! Of course when you adjust the default specification you generally end up paying over the odds so that would likely adjust if the US defaulted to the higher one. Ah well, I don't generally expect sense out of Dell these days. I wonder if their pre-sales email still bounces back as it used to. I contacted them way back in 2001, iirc, and got my email returned, so gave up. Then in 2002 sometime I had reason to use the same email again and it got returned with exactly the same error - which from memory was something about the address (as published on their website for over a year) not existing! Which reminds me, I'm still battling with them about the fact that their Dell branded Broadcom WiFi card doesn't work properly in Vista with my access point, and each time I ask customer services for an exchange for an Intel card they pass me back to tech support who yet again fail to fix the problem and suggest I talk to customer services - wheee, loop de loop :( - -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjBW2MACgkQ62AAfTDMCKVL2wCghscNpfFY1hkr+0ryVMoPWs/Y 3v8An0F7bwdkaUp/JMM0wAJQ00n6f73w =INiW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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