- Holiday blues.
- Dell busted in NYC — found guilty of misleading advertising, abuse debt collection, etc. Terrible.
- No new kernel for Windows 7. Also it will not be out until at least the end of 2010 NOT next year as Gates promised.
- Creative Suite 4 on track.
- Centrino 2 delayed. Bad radios and bad graphics to blame.
- FiOS coming to NYC meaning Verizon is now in the TV business.
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Dell busted? What does this mean for Sally and Judy at the support center in India?
Dell’s just another manufacturer of a cheap commodity. Plus, Dell sucks. But that’s just my opinion from dealing with their merde boxes for 10 years.
I learned a new word today, “Merde”.
I’ll prove it. He don’t know merde from shinola.
Tabernac!
my DB is bigger
I knew it about Win 7!
Win 7 should be called “Vista Revisited”, or maybe “ReVista”?
Now, about Dell.
I do most of my work on a Dell Precision. It’s been absolutely excellent. Never a problem, either here or wherever in the world I happen to be. I dealt with a very, very good rep out of Texas who assisted me through the entire purchase. He even alerted me to a different purchase plan which gave me more bang for the buck. Very rare for customer service these days.
So although Dell got busted in NYC, we all know it’s just some screwed up regional manager trying to make his numbers look good.
We’ve had good and bad experiences with Dell. I don’t think their hardware is anything special but at least for the school district they have stood behind their product and fixed it any time one turned belly up. How they would treat me as an individual, I don’t know.
I’m not sure Gates promised anything other than making vague statements which is something he is famous for. The offical stance hasn’t changed from day one and I think MS would be crazy to make another big interface change in the next upgrade. It is sort of obvious that most MS users don’t like them or they wouldn’t have been trumpeting like a herd of wounded elephants. They may throw in some of those features that got dropped out of long horn if they can make them work.
What I do think is that lot of people are going to be moving past the 4 gig limit in the next four to six years. There will still be a market for 32 in 2010 of course but the future is 64.
Most likely six or eight core chips will be the in thing by then. I just hope somebody learns to code software to use them or MS fixes it so they can have the OS and anti-malware to run on some of the less used cores freeing up the more used cores for users to get things done with.
>>What I do think is that lot of people are going
>>to be moving past the 4 gig limit in the next
>>four to six years.
Kind of pathetic, when you consider how little more you can do with these massive hardware advances than you could do with Windows 3.1.
Word processing, email, spreadsheets, databases, blogging, pr0n, do we really need more than 4 gigs for that?
Hey, at least we got the translucent Aero interface, eh?