[olug] Dell Vista Promo

Eric P eric.maillist at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 01:27:38 UTC 2007


Travis Owens wrote:
> Got this from another list, had to pass it along.... Enjoy!
> 
> 
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/windows_vista_marketing_deception/
> This article has a link to a pdf
> http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/04/04/dell_vista_pc_basic.pdf
> 
> Here is the quote from the article (note the last line)
> 
> Home Basic lacks the media center, and funky Aero interface with flip 3D
> and thumbnails, and was described in one underwhelming Dell product spec
> (pdf) as: "Great for booting the operating system without running
> applications or games."
> 

It looks like the pdf cuts off that sentence.  And there's no period in that sentence (in the pdf) which makes me wonder
what the rest of the sentence actually says.


It could be something like: "Great for booting the operating system without running applications or games <guess>that
don't have high CPU/memory requirements, etc.</guess>"



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