[Shop-talk] New PC (was Dead PC)

[Paul Parkanzky]

I'm friends with the IT manager at my previous employer.  He always said that
If you buy a Dell to get one of their business machines, because the support
on that side is great while the consumer-side support is terrible.

We went from XP to Windows 7 and I considered it a huge upgrade.  There are a
lot of little features in Win7 that I used and liked that aren't in XP (The
snipping tool was very handy for the work I do).

At my new employer, they're transitioning from Dell to HP and I got an HP
laptop when I started.  It has a couple gizmos my Dell didn't have but seems
comparable enough to me.

They're also still on XP, which I like much less.  They're rolling Win7 out
over the next couple quarters, thankfully.

-Paul

On Aug 20, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Karl Vacek <kvacek at ameritech.net> wrote:
>> plus having moved
>> their support to India.
>
> Not all of it.  Maybe it goes along with the high-end or Government
> business support, but my support tech is in Florida.