I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sat Apr 14 23:01:09 EDT 2012


Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>
> Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >   For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude
> > line instead.  Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people
> > who buy based on price and the color of the lid.  Latitude is the
> > business line, designed for people who are buying a tool.
[...]
> This all sounds great, but..., I don't see Latitude as current product line
> on dell.com, and their `Ubuntu on Dell page' (linked from linux.dell.com)
> shows a `Software Platforms' list that ends with Ubuntu 9.10.
> 
> What am I missing?

Oh, I get it--the product-categories listing on the front page
goes down into `products for home use', and then I got trapped there.

You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick
what broad class of device you want to look at.

I hate other people's ontologies, sometimes....

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