Garrett Krueger wrote: > Actually, Dell DOES market a line of printers (though they're manufactured > by someone else as I understand). Again though, people really don't think > "printer" when they think Dell nor do they think "PC's" when they think > HP. > > Personally, I feel of Dell marketing printers the same way I feel of HP > marketing PC's -- poor marketing choice. The difference is that Dell is > just marketing the printers as an "add-on convenience." HP's really been > trying to make their PC's a viable market force. > My understanding was that they were a rebranding of Lexmark printers. However, recent conversations with a Dell person would have me believe that they acquire the core technology from Lexmark, but the printers are then manufactured with additional Dell features to Dell spec by a third party manufacturer. I don't know how much of this is fact. The fact is that Dell does not innovate, never has and never will. Their specialty is taking someone else's idea and wringing the last screaming penny out of the production process so that they can beat you up on price. This is all well and good, but what happens when the last company with an R&D budget gets run into the ground? Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list