I'm looking at the Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook and realized that for a similar system, a Dell home system is $2-300 more than a Dell small business system. Does anyone know why? Perhaps there's a catch somewhere (ie warranty)?
i think they put a lot of extra software and junk on the home systems that the small business ones don't have.
that might explain some of it price difference.
yeah, the home systems usually come with things like sound cards and Office and other crap you may or may not need.
Usually the business ones cost more, plus you have to pay tax on them (and in some states you pay tax on home systems as well). BUT you get the business tech support, which is far superior to home. No foreign tech guys that keep telling you to reformat and less wait time. It's easily worth it, imho. You should have plenty of options with the warranties, although I believe 3 years onsite is standard with the business ones.
Get the business ones if you can.
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Dell home vs Dell small business
I'm looking at the Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook and realized that for a similar system, a Dell home system is $2-300 more than a Dell small business system. Does anyone know why? Perhaps there's a catch somewhere (ie warranty)?
latitude notebooks tend to be better than the inspirons
better construction, built to take some banging around
i think they put a lot of extra software and junk on the home systems that the small business ones don't have.
that might explain some of it price difference.
yeah, the home systems usually come with things like sound cards and Office and other crap you may or may not need.
Usually the business ones cost more, plus you have to pay tax on them (and in some states you pay tax on home systems as well). BUT you get the business tech support, which is far superior to home. No foreign tech guys that keep telling you to reformat and less wait time. It's easily worth it, imho. You should have plenty of options with the warranties, although I believe 3 years onsite is standard with the business ones.
Get the business ones if you can.
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