Last year I bought 2 Dell pcs for the surgery. They came with Win XP Home. I
did a clean install of Win 2K. Only problem was the network cards didn't
have a Win2K driver. A quick google and a compact driver that fitted on a
floppy made everything hunky dory.
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Jel Coward [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 15:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Dell
Hi all
I am about to by some PCs and am looking at both Dell and a local vendor.
The local vendor told me yesterday that Dell are making machines so that
they cannot easily be upgraded.
They said that Dell have an agreement with Microsoft and that they write
'specifically to the chip' so that other software (eg an upgraded operating
system, won't work) - also that the drivers are the same way, implying that
even if the OS is successfully changed the drivers would not work and are
not available.
This has not been my previous experience but I guess it could be true.
Equally it could be BS from a vendor wanting the work (quite a common thing
in business in BC it seems).
They also told me that the support dept for Dell are now in India and that
the support advice usually just involves suggesting using the rescue disk
which is tailored to the original, un-tinkered with configuration thus
creating problems if any changes have been made.
I am doubting their word on this - does anyone know if these things are
true?
Cheers
--
Jelly Bean
The Wilderness Emerg Medical Tech course and Command Physician site has been
updated - take a look for course dates in 2003!!
http://www.wildmedic.org
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