Dell server wotsit

Post by **Kulgan** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:55 pm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/15 ... r_selloff/

We almost bought one or two of these for SG, but they stopped the offer before we clicked "buy". Prolly just as well, tbh.

K

LemonSHARK · Post by **LemonSHARK** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:15 pm

...and I thought the free T-Shirts that we are getting from Dell when we purchased some poweredge servers was good.

I'd like to see how many were on offer though.

Post by **mid_gen** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:43 am

If only my new credit card had arrived a bit earlier :'(

The chips retail for £300 a piece.

Bah

GlimmerMan · Post by **GlimmerMan** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:02 pm

A mate pointed these out to me at work last week. £99 looks sexy, but you had to add £150 for VAT and delivery = £249. Still, quite a good deal I guess since as middy pointed out the chip costs a fair bit on its own.
At the end of the day though it's still a Dell server, seriously have you ever used a dell server? Life expectancy of what, 2 months at best!?

LazyManc · Post by **LazyManc** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:53 pm

The Register article says that it was a pricing error and no-one got the servers, so wouldn't have mattered anyways.