[aklug] Re: Not What I Was Expecting - Dell Custom Job

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Sun Sep 20 2009 - 01:24:51 AKDT

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barsalou wrote:
> Quoting Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>:
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>> So I ordered by Dell Mini 10v from Dell website. It was cool because you
>> get to select all your specs, like how much RAM, how big of a hard
>> drive, etc.
>>
>> Down side that I didn't anticipate: It takes them 2 weeks to produce the
>> order. So even though I paid for next day shipping, I still won't get it
>> until the beginning of October.
>>
>> It's not really a /bad/ deal, I guess. Just wasn't expecting it would
>> take them that long to put it together. Thought I'd mention it in case
>> anyone was thinking of buying directly from Dell.
>
> So what was your ending configuration and what did you pay?
>
> Mike B.
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Most of the options were default/minimal, except I went with the 160 GB
hard drive instead of the 16 GB SSD, and I selected Ubuntu instead of
Windows. Std 1.6 Ghz Atom with (what was it?) 1 GB RAM.

It was $300 for the computer and $16 for shipping. Perhaps if I had
spent /another/ few hours looking around I could've got it for a little
less, but it seemed a reasonable amount and I don't have a lot of time.

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