From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 25 04:34:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C7916A494 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:34:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DACD43D6B for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43ECA290C29; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99110-04; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04D3290C25; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ADA1B3D340; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67573BA65; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:45 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:34:45 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Nick Withers In-Reply-To: <20060625142143.d4af970a.nick@nickwithers.com> Message-ID: <20060625013213.R1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060624215742.N1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060625142143.d4af970a.nick@nickwithers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:34:56 -0000 On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Nick Withers wrote: > I tend to think of Dell as a low-end provider that will cobble together > systems based on whatever bits happen to be lying around (don't think > that one PE 2650 is the same as the next!), which in turn are invariably > the cheapest bits available for a particular job. 'k, this is exactly the thing that I'd heard about the Desktops ... and was curious about concerning their server offering ... you mention further up in your response that this was 'a little while back' ... how long ago, and can anyone here comment on whether or not this is still the case with Dell? Pricing things out through the web sites, Dell is definitely the 'cheaper brand', at least in comparison to HP ... so will I end up "getting what I paid for" with the cheaper Dell, and regretting it, or ... ? :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664