Dell offers factory installation for Vista

Dell offers factory installation for Vista

Tom Warren on 05 December 2006 - 20:15 · 26 comments & 13191 views

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Hardware giant Dell has responded to the launch of Microsoft’s Windows Vista by offering factory installation to speed business adoption of the new operating system.

Dell said its latest server and storage products, desktops and notebooks had been designed and optimised for Windows Vista, along with Microsoft’s Office 2007 productivity suite and Exchange Server 2007.

Business users with volume licensing agreements from Microsoft can now send their Windows Vista image to Dell for factory installation through the hardware giant’s standard imaging service.

Other manufacturers have also responded to the Vista launch with new products and services.

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#1 kazzama on 05 Dec 2006 - 20:18

Cool

#2 AMDMEFX-55 on 05 Dec 2006 - 20:41

Cool

#3 slimy on 05 Dec 2006 - 20:45

Great idea!

#4 RedHook on 05 Dec 2006 - 20:54

wow, they should also start taking over for PCs over the web. That idea might catch on

#5 Izlude on 05 Dec 2006 - 21:16

dude you're getting Vista!

(4 replies) #6 ahhell on 05 Dec 2006 - 21:17

Since they are supporting Vista, does that mean they are actually going to put decent video "cards" in their systems??
The current ones suck.

#6.1 MioTheGreat on 05 Dec 2006 - 21:55

Even the newer integrated Intel cards can run Aero Glass well. Hell. A 5200FX runs perfectly fine on one of my PCs.

#6.2 RichardK on 05 Dec 2006 - 22:06

ahhell, Please don't post if you don't know what you are talking about. Trolling is frowned on.

#6.3 Swordnyx on 06 Dec 2006 - 01:25

Quote - RichardK said @ #6.2

ahhell, Please don't post if you don't know what you are talking about. Trolling is frowned on.

No actually my friend's old computer runs Vista and it's really really old. Except he told me he recently upgraded his video to 64 MB so I dunno.

#6.4 mrmckeb on 06 Dec 2006 - 11:15

Quote - Swordnyx said @ #6.3

No actually my friend's old computer runs Vista and it's really really old. Except he told me he recently upgraded his video to 64 MB so I dunno.

Yeah my little brother runs Vista on his 1.8GHz with 512MB RAM and a 32MB DX7 GPU.

#7 iCeFuSiOn on 05 Dec 2006 - 21:31

Sweet.

#8 dRock Slimpy Slimpin on 05 Dec 2006 - 23:09

dude. your getting a dell!
go kill yourself.
dude. your getting a dell with vista.
i hope you used monopoly money ><

(1 reply) #9 bucko on 05 Dec 2006 - 23:26

I hope they don't put all that dell crapware while vista loads and hope there not using extreme gfx cards any more.

#9.1 Swordnyx on 06 Dec 2006 - 01:27

Quote - bucko said @ #9

I hope they don't put all that dell crapware while vista loads and hope there not using extreme gfx cards any more.

They still do except the trial software is for networking and Dell product information.

#10 kazzama on 05 Dec 2006 - 23:33

extreme gfx cards

Worst name ever... ever.

#11 DClark on 06 Dec 2006 - 00:19

My crappy nVidia 6600 LE works good with Aero and scores a 3.9

(1 reply) #12 Daninku on 06 Dec 2006 - 00:50

slightly off topic, but when is there going to be trial versions of Vista?

#12.1 Jeev on 06 Dec 2006 - 02:44

Quote - Daninku said @ #12

slightly off topic, but when is there going to be trial versions of Vista?

Based on XP.. there *should* be.. but i don't believe anything has been announced.

Please correct me if i am wrong...

(4 replies) #13 naap51stang on 06 Dec 2006 - 01:05

my E1505 with an ATI X1400 ran RC2 with Aero with no problems.

#13.1 hotrod on 06 Dec 2006 - 03:22

Quote -

Dell said its latest server and storage products

please send me a server with Vista installed!

#13.2 Express on 06 Dec 2006 - 04:52

Quote - hotrod said @ #13.1

Quote -

Dell said its latest server and storage products

please send me a server with Vista installed!

I actually got a server with XP Professional installed from Dell.
So don't be surprised.

#13.3 Brutimus on 06 Dec 2006 - 05:35

I just installed Vista on a PowerEdge 2850 today. We have to have a licensing server for our Vista machines that has to be hosted on either a Vista or Longhorn Server machine. Since Longhorn Server isn't quite up to par yet, vista was the only option. But, I'm still mostly off topic since I didn't actually get it FROM Dell with Vista on it. Oh well..

#13.4 +aniv on 06 Dec 2006 - 12:28

Quote - Express said @ #13.2

Quote - hotrod said @ #13.1

Quote -

Dell said its latest server and storage products

please send me a server with Vista installed!

I actually got a server with XP Professional installed from Dell.
So don't be surprised.

sure, same way as your....

#14 Paul on 06 Dec 2006 - 11:22

Good move Dell ^_^

#15 yukycg on 06 Dec 2006 - 15:49

my dell AIO printer still need Vista driver

#16 mayamaniac on 08 Dec 2006 - 00:38

When Dell say their products are "Vista Ready", do they mean both the 32bit and 64 bit versions? Driver wise, I think its just the 32bit version thats Vista Ready.

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