RE: [ukha_d] £99 Dell server - great!

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - the build is quick (I used to work for another big PC manufacturer
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the UK - and helped with some of the burn-in processes). My thoughts on th=
e time it takes were based on the burn-in tests which used to run for
sever=
al days =3D lowest PC DOA failure rate in the country at the time!

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Andrews [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 April 2005 01:34
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!
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> If you ever get the chance to go around their factory, take them up on
it
> -
> it is an achievement in automation.
> Lee is right, almost every machine is built to order and as you have
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> customisable in almost every way.
> Their corporate sales is also very pressured, they can tell at any
moment
> how many servers / workstations sold that month and can compare it
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> the other big boys like HP.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeeUKHA [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 April 2005 23:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!
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> I doubt it, Dell where featured on Working Lunch as while back, IIRC
it
> only take a Dell employee about 90 secs to build a PC...
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> The unpacked parts turn up in a tray on a conveyor belt, an electric
> screwdriver on a flexible cable hangs overhead, there's a minor
scuffle
> and the finished PC carries on down the conveyor belt...
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> Lee
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> Paul Gale wrote:
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> > I guess they had these ready to ship rather than building to
order?
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> > Paul.
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Greaves [mailto:david@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 08 April 2005 10:20
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] =A399 Dell server - great!
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> > > I was feeling quite neglected...
> > >
> > > But mine just arrived too <grin>
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > > Paul Gale wrote:
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> > > > Oh - and the diagnostics software included on the
CD/HDD is good :)
> > > >
> > > > If you are trying it out - can you test the CPU fan -
seems to be O=
K
> > > > until the test is finished and then it goes ballistic
and the fan
> > > > screams away for a bit then slows right down. An error
message then
> > > > pops up. Would be interesting if you get the same?
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> > > > Paul.
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