[mythtv-users] Dell dual-quad-core Xeon server for $779

[Yan Seiner]

Josh White wrote:
> I'm not worried about the price point, I'm sure even at $36 I'm paying 
> 10x the manufacturing cost.  What I am worried about was the fact that 
> the outer layer of packaging was a cardboard box, then a layer of foam 
> peanuts, then bubble wrap, then a plasitc bag, and then the drive 
> itself.  No asus box, nothing.  No manual, wires, registration card, 
> anything.  All I got was a box that they threw some basic packaging 
> materials in and a drive.  Like it was just pulled out of a system they 
> had lying around.  I guess that's probably better packaging than dell 
> receives at their assembly plants, but still.  Not what I'm used to. 

OEM v. retail - the OEM stuff is bulk-packed, with little to no stuff - 
maybe a CD.  Retail comes in a nice box with stuff.

You pay more for retail packages.  Do you really need the package?  :-)

--Yan

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