[mythtv-users] First ION desktop officially announced - Acer AspireRevo

[Matt Emmott]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:00 PM, James Crow <james at ultratans.com> wrote:

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> If you want a Dell without all the crap look at their Small/Medium Business
> website. I just checked and the option is there. Go to Dell.com->For
> Office->Workstation->Small & Medium Business. From there you can choose what
> OS. FreeDOS and Linux are both options as is Windows XP. The systems may
> cost more, but I think the components that go into the OptiPlex and
> Precision lines are better than those used in the Dimension and whatever
> else they sell to home users.
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> Cheers,
> James
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As someone who's used Dell's personal and enterprise lines and everything in
between for over ten years, I figure I can add some value to the discussion.


The new Vostro line kind of muddles the water, but in general you have your
business line (Lattitude, Precision, Inspiron and Poweredge non-SC) and your
consumer line (Inspiron, Dimension, XPS) with the SMB line (Vostro,
PowerEdge SC) filling the gap in between.

Business-class machines will have 1) Better support, 2) Much less shovelware
pre-installed, 3) More hardware monitoring hooks for WMI / SNMP / IPMI etc,
and will be less cutting-edge in terms of performance, to ensure a bit of
reliability.

So the take-away is, Optiplexes and Latitudes usually cost more and are
slightly less powerful than their consumer counterparts, but if you value
reliability and support over bleeding-edge components, they are worth it.
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