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If you go to the Dell site, right off the bat, you can choose whether it's a home or a business computer. Not only "can", but "must", which is really obnoxious

If you go to the Dell site, right off the bat, you can choose whether it's a home or a business computer. Not only "can", but "must", which is really obnoxious. If I pick "business", are they going to try to rip me off because they figure I'm not spending my own money? If I pick "home", are they only going to show me the cheap stuff? There's no reason (that benefits users) to segment their products like that.

lhorie 16y ago
>> If I pick "business", are they going to try to rip me off because they figure I'm not spending my own money? If I pick "home", are they only going to show me the cheap stuff? That's a strawman, considering Apple computers generally cost way more than the PC equivalents, and that Apple can be quite the cheapskate in components also (e.g. when i bought mine, it had a crappy the-sort-of-thing-you'd-see-in-a-HP video card and no upgrade options). Also, if the wizard-style sites bug you, retailer sites are often more "window-shopping" oriented. (On a off-topic side note, I just noticed you can search Dell laptops by screen size, by weight and some other parameters. That's pretty cool http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen&cat=prod&k=laptop&rpp=12&p=1&subcat=sys%2fnotebooks&rf=all&nk=f&sort=K&ira=False&~srd=False&ipsys=False&advsrch=False&~ck=anavTop http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=gen&...)