Surprise. OEMs not just tricking AMD buyers

[superstition]

Sometimes I really want to start configuring and selling my own brand PCs with good customer support. But that would be to much

There's one thing you're forgetting, though... payola.

What if the high-up administrators and/or IT people have invested in Dell? What if the university itself has Dell stock? Then they would want to pay too much for junk.

It's ridiculous, in my opinion, to put a conventional hard disk as primary storage in a 6700 system or a 5K iMac. 5400 RPM laptop hard disks and single channel RAM are just worse.

 

[Arachnotronic]

What if the high-up administrators and/or IT people have invested in Dell? What if the university itself has Dell stock? Then they would want to pay too much for junk.

Dell is a private company

 

[jpiniero]

It's ridiculous, in my opinion, to put a conventional hard disk as primary storage in a 6700 system or a 5K iMac. 5400 RPM laptop hard disks and single channel RAM are just worse.

The current base iMac 4K comes with a 5400 RPM drive. It's not a university specific thing. You can upgrade it of course to a Fusion drive or PCIe SSD.

 

[nerp]

If the organization puts out an RFP and wants thousands of machines at X price, OEMs do what they have to do to meet the price. That is how the world works.

 

[Torn Mind]

Dell is a private company

Their money isn't enough to influence Dell's stock anyway. You need a mass, not a literal handful of people, to really influence stock price. Universities have budgets, and that is funded either by government or the students themselves.

 

[cbn]

Comment retracted.