First, it is completely OK for individuals to order from the Dell Small Business site. You can just use your full name as the "company" name, instead of making up any bogus company names.
I have ordered many times through the small business site. So did many people I know. I once asked the Dell sales rep assigned to the company I work with. The answer is exactly what I said above.
The Home site and the Small Business site, as well as other ones, are ran by different business units, which are independent of each other. They come up with their pricing, services terms and promotions.
Just had a baby last December, I couldn't agree more with 2 and 3. I went thru the experience of 2 myself. And I bought a Tivo.
Besides these advices, I would suggest buying a good laptop with 802.11b (or g). You'll have no time sitting in front of your desktop, waiting for it to boot or wake up from hibernation. Good mobility really helps.
More features are nice but I as a site designer would rather see more bug fixes in Mozilla, especially in DOM support.
Last night I was porting a JavaScript library to Mozilla, which uses onkeydown/onkeyup event to give user fast feedback. I found that these events in Mozilla 1.1 are complete broken. I have to think of an acceptable fall-back solution and to add more browser specific code. What a pain.
If you ever tried to print your 2 megapixel picture at any size larger than 4x6, you would probably noticed the lack of resolution. If you want to crop the picture then the 2mp will fall even shorter.
11 megapixel is significant. But compare to this, the most significant achievement is the full frame 35mm CMOS censor. This means there won't be the dreaded "zoom multiply" any more.
I bought the one bare-bone Book PC with S-Video out and S/PDIF digital audio recently, supposedly to connect to my receiver as "media terminal", to play mp3 and divx off my linux/samba server. I put a Celeron 700 and 128MB ram in it. Here is my experience:
It runs quite hot.
It is somewhat noisy.
I never got the S/PDIF interface working. The analog audio is terrible.
The cpu fan connector only has ~5v votage but the cpu fan (came with bookpc, ultra low profile) needs 12v. so the cpu fan doesn't ran. Finally I "fixed" it by routing 12v to the fan, but I lost the ability to look at its RPM. This is vendor dependent, you may not have the same problem.
The final outcome is I gave it to my Dad for web-surfing. Next time, I'll choose a quiet ATX box with modular (vs. all-in-one) components.
I know what you are talking about. Once I bought a bunch of "bare" disks. So bare some of them even stuck together. When I tried to separate them the recording layer was pealed off the base. When I put them in my cd-r, ECDC almost always failed on test burn and reported error. I had to try it again, some times again and again for ECDC to do a success test burn and once the test burn is passed it just burns all the way thru.
I found a solution later, i.e. sticking a lable to it before burning. It really worked very well, though economically it doesn't make sense (each self-adhesive label cost about $0.30).
I never bought any disk without protection layer from then.
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First, it is completely OK for individuals to order from the Dell Small Business site. You can just use your full name as the "company" name, instead of making up any bogus company names.
I have ordered many times through the small business site. So did many people I know. I once asked the Dell sales rep assigned to the company I work with. The answer is exactly what I said above.
The Home site and the Small Business site, as well as other ones, are ran by different business units, which are independent of each other. They come up with their pricing, services terms and promotions.
Just had a baby last December, I couldn't agree more with 2 and 3. I went thru the experience of 2 myself. And I bought a Tivo.
Besides these advices, I would suggest buying a good laptop with 802.11b (or g). You'll have no time sitting in front of your desktop, waiting for it to boot or wake up from hibernation. Good mobility really helps.
Cruster... That's a typical Engrish word, not Chinglish though.
According to the article, the CPU appears to be named as "Godson-2" by it creators. Bad name, I would say.
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Last night I was porting a JavaScript library to Mozilla, which uses onkeydown/onkeyup event to give user fast feedback. I found that these events in Mozilla 1.1 are complete broken. I have to think of an acceptable fall-back solution and to add more browser specific code. What a pain.
If you ever tried to print your 2 megapixel picture at any size larger than 4x6, you would probably noticed the lack of resolution. If you want to crop the picture then the 2mp will fall even shorter.
11 megapixel is significant. But compare to this, the most significant achievement is the full frame 35mm CMOS censor. This means there won't be the dreaded "zoom multiply" any more.
enjoy.
...because in Chinese "Pixie" means leather shoes. Go figure...
The final outcome is I gave it to my Dad for web-surfing. Next time, I'll choose a quiet ATX box with modular (vs. all-in-one) components.
Maybe a little OT, but hey it's informative...
I know what you are talking about. Once I bought a bunch of "bare" disks. So bare some of them even stuck together. When I tried to separate them the recording layer was pealed off the base. When I put them in my cd-r, ECDC almost always failed on test burn and reported error. I had to try it again, some times again and again for ECDC to do a success test burn and once the test burn is passed it just burns all the way thru.
I found a solution later, i.e. sticking a lable to it before burning. It really worked very well, though economically it doesn't make sense (each self-adhesive label cost about $0.30).
I never bought any disk without protection layer from then.
The second to it would be a Ryder truck fully loaded with punch cards...