Re: Dell Linux blog -- Bull! This is just unexplainable!

[Jonathan <j.e.drews@worldnet.att.net>]

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 09:12, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Bull!  I was in the middle of it!
> Even Spencer F. Katt reported on it in PCWeek (now eWeek)!
> 
> When Dell repeatedly told my engineers that they could buy the Linux
> desktop systems with _only_ 128MB of RAM (when the _exact_same_ Windows
> install was available with 768-1,536MB) and the _slowest_ CPUs, that was
> "someone pushing buttons."


I got the same treatment when I bought my RedHat Dell Dimension. At the
time there were 800 Mhz machines but I could only get the preinstalled
Linux on a 600 MHz computer.


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