[geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Eric Railine <erailine at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/03/27 Thu AM 04:45:37 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI - Low cost Dell Opteron Servers

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> 
wrote:
>>  My order status now says "Shipped", 5 days before their estimate.
>>
>>  Are they accurate?
>
>I'm going to say yes.  I ordered one too (same config everyone else
>has discussed - 1.8/4/160) on the 24th; late in the day on the 25th it
>had my status as shipped.  This morning it finally has the carrier &
>tracking info and FedEx shows it having been picked up at 10:47pm on
>the 25th...
>
>Not bad.  Now the expected delivery date of the 1st is a small torture...

Dell ships from more than one location - they have one on the east coast, and 
IIRC I've gotten some of the systems I've ordered as soon as next-day after 
being marked as shipped. In fact, the last system I ordered was delivered 
before Dell said the system had shipped.

Lionel