Friday, May 25, 2007

Dell's first three Ubuntu PCs

Dell’s first three Ubuntu PCs

Here they are. Slightly cheaper than Windows equivalents, but that’s not really the reason for getting one, is it?

Glaring error in their copy:

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system. It’s also one of the most popular open source operating system (sic) on the planet.

I’m sure if they had put some effort into that, they could have made it sound more appealing, and, er… grammatical.

Update: here’s something I didn’t notice at first:

Dell provides hardware support only. Software support is available through Canonical and Linux Community.

Dell helpfully offers to add software support to your shopping cart: $65 for 30 days, $125 for 1 year ‘Basic’, $275 for 1 year ‘Standard’. All three will presumably get you a direct line to Canonical, the company that created Ubuntu. Expensive.