[sdiy] OT: new Dell Support Center

[Veronica Merryfield]

Last September I decided that my aging HP laptop needed replacing. At that 
point I had a desktop and laptop windows xp machines. I wanted to get 
something that would last, that I could do some serious music stuff with and 
that I could use for work (hardware and sotware development) and play. After 
much researching I got to a short list of a top ASUS or a macbook pro. I 
decided to go mac and decided to spent the extra and extend the spec. I am 
so pleased I made that move. I run VMware to use windows and linux plus I 
have a native unix (BSD) to do stuff with too. I have just added a macmini 
with external 500G raid as a server and that is going well too.

I have also had the dubious pleasure of upgrading various friends new 
machines to XP and gone through the pain of hunting down drivers. Seems to 
me that Dell, HP etc have the advantage of low purchase price but as someone 
pointed out to me, the current macs have a lower total cost of ownership, 
and not just monatary cost.

Veronica