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Tech: Intel vulnerable to competitors

updated 08:10 pm EST, Wed March 7, 2001


Evening tech news: A series of glitches and missteps have made Intel vulnerable to competitors in the microprocessor industry, according to a growing group of analysts; concerned government regulators and experts are meeting this week to discuss the economic impact of long-distances telephone calls over the Internet; the creator of a new robotic nurse, which helps find a needle's target vein for injection, will test the device for the first time on a human—himself—for the first time on TV; and after having its sales figures officially adjusted by IDC, Dell has declared itself number one in the educational market over Apple.


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    Dell as EduLeader

    I love my dell/linux server. But I use my macs for real educational work. And I will for the longest time I can imagine... Dells are fine for professional work in business or as servers, as they have the best warranty that I need for a server. But I won't give them to kids, be they 6 or 60s.

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    Agreed

    I too use Dell for our commodity servers where I can't use a Mac OS X Server or a Sun would be over kill. We currently have 6000 networked Mac's and around 400 PC's, 13 Sun servers, 6 Dell servers and 8 Mac OS X Servers and hundreds of Mac ASIP servers. I feel that Mac's are just better for education, yield a higher ROI and are just plain easier to deal with. Apple really screwed up the EDU market and in my opinion it's really two things... 1. support and 2. face time. Apple used to do on site support (out sourced from Kodak) and it was awesome. Sure, some people had troubles, but it was next day service for parts repair and it worked. Dropping that and then later going with CompUSA was a horrible idea. Next apple just has not been in front of the customer enough.

    Thats all.

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    Dell ?

    I can hardly imagine Dell lasting very long thinking they would lead Apple in education sales. Our department went from IBM Thinkpads that were getting 2-3 years old to some Dell 366 Mhz Latitudes. They are JUNK. In 6-9 months all of them have broken 2 to 3 times and not just batteries or keyboards. The repair people don't even want to hear about it. It's too bad we can't get the " Approved Product List" purchasing department to let us buy whatever we want just as long as out job gets done.

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    Dell is c***.

    They sell such garbage at such high price it's unbelievable. Dell is really payola central; the only reason they manage to sell anything is because they pay off the corporate and education buyers. If quality and price points were the deciding factors, their overpriced, crappy machines wouldn't even register on the radar screen.

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    DELL

    Dell tech support in the UK is by far the worst I have ever encountered in my long life.

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    Dell Rocks.

    Whine all you want. Our office is Mac based, and we're all Mac-heads, but our servers are Dell. They're rock solid, put together better than any other Wintel PC, and support is awesome. I don't like to see Apple slipping in any market, especially one of their cornerstones like education, but I'm not going to knock Dell for doing good business.

    I've had to deal with Gateway, Micron, HP, Compaq, and several other supposedly premium-quality PC's, and my experience (hardware, configuration, support, etc.) has been horrible with all of them.

    If you have to buy a Wintel PC, there's only one choice: Dell.

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    Dell gloating...

    Seems like someone is trying to put a positive spin on a company that despite all its revenue, doesn't seem to have any new ideas or any direction (and if you read the reports have maxed out their revenue stream).

    Only one word to describe them if you ask me... beleaguered...

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    Interesting

    My school district is in the process of switching from Macs to Dells. We have had some seriouos problems with our Dell desktops and laptops. From one campus alone I have returned 12 defective monitors, replaced 3 motherboards and 5 computers that were DOA. The tech support we recieve from Dell is mediocre at best. Our Dell servers, however, have been running without a hitch. Perhaps they need more QC on the consumer end of things. I have come to this conclusion, I would rather have a LC580 on my desk than a any Dell desktop.

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    Interesting

    My school district is in the process of switching from Macs to Dells. We have had some seriouos problems with our Dell desktops and laptops. From one campus alone I have returned 12 defective monitors, replaced 3 motherboards and 5 computers that were DOA. The tech support we recieve from Dell is mediocre at best. Our Dell servers, however, have been running without a hitch. Perhaps they need more QC on the consumer end of things. I have come to this conclusion, I would rather have a LC580 on my desk than a any Dell desktop.

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    dell

    I used to like dell, because they always seem to have the best things in the PC world before the other PC's. And they tend to perform better that other PC's at the same processor speed.
    But I started dissliking them when Mr. Dell said that if he was Steve, he would sell the company and gave investers their money back. Must have been like a slap in the face when Apple stock when through the roof a few months later.
    Oh, and you are wrong about dell not having any ideas. Didn't they dream up a plan to replace their beig box with black PC's? Dumb. They've probably scrapped the idea by now.

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