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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Dell prepares to rebrand
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:32:07 +0000
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Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Retrograde   wrote:
>>> Dell has announced it’s rebranding literally its entire product line, so
>> mainstays like XPS, Latitude, and Inspiron are going away. They’re replacing
>> all of these old brands with Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, and within each
>> of these, there will be three tiers: Base, Plus, and Premium. 
> 
> This is confusing.
> 
> Which is the one made as cheaply as possible so the fans and electrolytic
> caps fail five years down the road?  That used to be the Optiplex, what is
> it now?

At a guess "Dell" & "Base"

> Which is the rackmount server 

None of XPS, Latitude, and Inspiron are servers

Their website for servers is very confusing now, too split up by 
industry, what does a server care about that?

Easy to find 1U/1xsocket/4xdrive servers for about £1k
Easy to find £30kto £50k, 1U servers too

Not so easy to find boxes with a bit more expansion (2U, 2xsocket, 8-16 
drives) they do exist and reasonable about £3-4k starting price, but 
they're almost hidden.

I'm sure they'd love to spend they time sending out horrifically priced 
quotes, but for customers who haven't gone to the cloud, but don't wnt a 
poverty spec server, they don't appear to be trying very hard?

> It took years to figure out the old names.  Now I have to figure them all
> out all over again?
I'm sure we'll cope