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

[Ben Scott]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> 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....

  Dell is particularly bad when it comes to this.  Their various
business units and/or sales groups often offer quite disconnected, to
the point where the company sometimes seems schizophrenic.  Seasoned
Dell customers will know you can even get their different sales groups
into a bidding war with each other.  This might even work for single
purchases -- after spec'ing the config you want, save the cart, and
then call the phone sales group and see if they can get you a better
price.

  But even in the general case, I suspect most "serious geeks" would
be better served by interfacing with all their prospective vendors as
if they are a business customer.  Consumer/home offerings are
generally targeted at people who have a very different set of criteria
and goals than most geeks.

-- Ben