[wplug] eMachines?

[Ryan W. Frenz]

That kind of support only comes to those (usually companies) who spend 
$.  This could be bs, but I was once told that Dell has a sliding scale 
for support -- they ask for your name and address, then they call up how 
much you've spent in the last x months.  How high that $ amount is 
determines where your call gets connected to.  So Grandma with her $349 
Celeron system gets a guy reading a script 10,000 miles away.

Ryan Brown wrote:

>What do you use for servers then if you have any? I used to always make my
>own servers but I found it was a waste of my time if a part went bad within
>3 years (atleast 1 hard drive would go bad for sure in that period). With
>Dell's 4 hour response, 24x7x365x3 they will be here within 4 hours at any
>time to change parts. Up until recently I used to colo all of my equipment
>in Los Angeles. This would sure be a pain in the ass to change drives, add
>memory, etc being in Pittsburgh. With the Dell support contract they would
>go to the data center and do the changes I needed. Yes Dell is expensive
>compared to home built boxes, but I find the support I receive definitely
>worth it. I have yet to find a rack case that compares to the quality, ease
>of opening / swapping parts / and sleek design of a Dell 1750 / 2650 model.
>
>Also as for Dell pricing, they have a mailing list where they constantly
>email you 10 or 15 % off coupons. So this helps in reducing the price. You
>can also buy these coupons off people on Ebay (they are one time use
>coupons) if you do not want to join their mailing list.
>
>Ryan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Guy Patten [mailto:gpatten at verizon.net] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:00 AM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: RE: [wplug] eMachines?
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>You couldn't give me a Dell or any other OEM system.  
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>>Buy a Dell.
>>
>>You can get the Poweredge 400SC tower server for around $250 (I have
>>seen as low as $228) after rebates when they run their specials
>>(almost every week).
>>
>>P4 2.26 ghz, 128 ram, 40 GB hard drive, CDrom. Also has SATA
>>connectors on the board and 1 year warranty.
>>
>>Ryan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brandon Kuczenski [mailto:brandon at 301south.net] 
>>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 1:57 PM
>>To: WPLUG
>>Subject: [wplug] eMachines?
>>
>>I am looking to set up an inexpensive gateway/firewall in my lab ato
>>CMU.  Some cmu.misc.market (cmu-private newsgroup) guy is selling an
>>eMachines 2 GHz Celeron system for $200.  Would it be a mistake for me
>>to use such a cheap POS as a linux gateway and fileserver?  The only
>>reason I even looked at the ad was because it had a couple peripheral
>>devices I was personally interested in (like an internal DVD/CDRW
>>drive).
>>
>>-brandon
>>
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