POST A COMMENT
Please log in to post a comment.LAST 100 PROMOTIONS
LAST 100 DEMOTIONS
Your Ideas in Action
-
Happy 2010 everyone! I know I'm a little late with the holiday greetings, but there is a lot to share on...
Bookmarking & Sharing
That's what we want: 5 years waranty, good price, good performance.
What's interesting for me: silence, small size and the warranty to have a pc running 5 years without any trouble, with latest's technology.
Furthermore, in five years, I'll replace all that stuff with brandnew Dell's (or HP, or...?) that 'll have enough memory to run the next generation (Vista,...,Linux, OS X....?) of O.S.
Dell often offer 2 times the amount of memory for the same price during specific time of year...
If they choose to pre-load Vista, they should advice 1 Gb of memory as a standard but let the customer decide.
With Linux or XP, 512Mb is quite enough for a normal use.
If the customer need assistance (what does i need for doing this or that?), it's always possible to call Dell for assistance...or ask a friend!
That's the trouble: people need good advices... the rest is a personnal "point of vue"...depending the way you're using your computer (vid+¬o's, gaming,...)
That's too bad - in many ways.
If Dell's been listening to *ANYTHING*Â on IdeaStorm, they'd realize that not all Dell customers run Vista even if that is what you're paid to pre-install.
Some want XP to stay longer (and Dell is big enough to negotiate that with their software vendor if they wanted). Some run non-windows OS's on Dells.  Some will want to run Window 7 which is allegedly lighter-weight than Vista.
Oh wait, that's been halfheartedly implemented already.
Actually, I wouldn't want to impede on customer choice. So how about when customers select a low amount of RAM and Vista, a huge bold warning is AJAXed onto the screen.
Honestly, IÂ think before worrying about removing the lower RAMÂ options, they need to add more to some of their higher-end systems. There are some for which the lowest option is 4GB. This is fine if everything you want to do has a 64-bit version, but if so much as a single important program you need is only in 32-bit right now 4GB of RAM is potentially fatal, or wasteful as you'll not be noticing all of it on your 32-bit system unless you know how to configure youre PAEÂ kernel to identify it correctly for you or something.