Dell has its marching orders,” Colin Barr reports for TheStreet.com in his article, “The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week.”
“The Round Rock, Texas, PC giant got the go-ahead this week on a big U.S. Army supply contract. The Defense Department agreed to buy computers, displays, printers and peripherals from Dell and others under the so-called Army Desktop Mobile Computing-2 contract. All told, the deal could be worth $5 billion over 10 years,” Barr reports. “That news was well received at Dell, which of late has had precious little good news to report.”
“‘Because of our long history and direct relationship with the U.S. Army, we have a thorough understanding of its technology requirements, both domestically and abroad,’ said Troy West, vice president of Dell’s federal business segment,” Barr reports. “And shrugging off the inconvenient fact that eight other companies share the contract, including rival Hewlett-Packard and CDW, West adds that Dell is ‘uniquely positioned to support the Army’s global needs.’ Or at least uniquely proud of itself.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: U.S. Army: Dells for word processing, Apple Macs for supercomputing.
The first one to guess what movie quote the headline is based upon wins the “First Post to Guess What Movie Quote the Headline is Based Upon” Award!
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@ BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots
only in the mind of a neomoron is there such a thing as a typical liberal… you idiot.
Old jokes. “Q: What do you call someone who graduates in the bottom of his class from busienss school?
A: President.”
Q: What do call somebody that is too dumb to know how to spell “business”? –
A: An MDN poster named Old jokes.
And so every President graduated at the bottom of his business school….yeah, sure.
The movie quote is certainly odie-ous. And should not be attributed to our twentieth President.
And the big winner of the “First Post to Guess What Movie Quote the Headline is Based Upon” Award is…
Ampar
“Down, dumb dog!” – Garfield (2004)
George W. Bush or Chimpanzee?
Yes other operations within the military use Mac’s, the spooks certainly do!
Also just last Thursday whilst I watched BBC News 24 (only available in UK, the much better BBC World elsewhere – you lucky lot!!) I saw a report from Afganistan with a group of British soldiers in a camp crouching around a Macbook Pro and others watching from a seated area a Keynote presentation displayed on a large screen powered from another Macbook Pro.
They were all watching, alongside the Keynote app, a Quicktime movie of the previous week’s operations.
There’s really no mistaking this for anything else! Nothing other than a Mac will do for the world’s best trained army, the British Army. Just to clarify that for you, the US Army is the world’s best equipped Army, now if we could just get as well equipped as the US Army is……I’ll hold that thought?!
I do sys admin for the Dept of the Army in DC, and the Dells are ALWAYS a headache. One office had all new systems installed recently, and with in 3 weeks I had two logic board, one RAM stick, and four hard drive failures.
Oh and by the way, all of the Army’s websites are created on Macs too.
And the big winner of the Lame BushBot Award is…
SkullBustedIdiot
for…
“Typical liberal logic…” (2006)
Congratulations!
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When will I read an article on Apple getting a a billion dollar deal with a large organization that isn’t a school?
It scares me that the military…..THE MILITARY is running on Windows.
God help us
JG
“And the big winner of the “First Post to Guess What Movie Quote the Headline is Based Upon” Award is…Ampar”
Woohoo! This is better than first post!
Garfield: “I love the smell of Cinnamon Apple in the morning. It smells like victory.”
Way to go, Ampar! You must watch way too many movies….
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Ampar — one of the three people that actually saw that movie…
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Our tax dollars inaction…errr, in action…
@ Busta mac
“ You know, the US Military is highly security oriented, they would love to have a rock solid OS like Mac OS X running the show.
Too bad it’s tied to sissy looking hardware. “
That’s ranks up there on the nonsense scale with people who actually think Bush is doing a good job.
First of all there is nothing sissy about a sleek aluminum Mac Book Pro, or a stealth black Mac Book, but even if there were what the hell does that have anything to do with it?
bush is from texas
dell is in texas
Bill Clinton is from Arkansas.
Wal-Mart is from Arkansas.
WM grew explosively during the Clinton presidency.
Coincidence?
Conservatives seem to live in the same reality distortion field that Jobs loves so much.
It scares me that the military…..THE MILITARY is running on Windows.
Well, this is the same military that can’t armor up its vehicles against insurgent IED’s (despite YEARS of soldiers dying in roadside explosions). This is also the same military that decided against finishing the Iraq job 15 years ago, and sprung the can of worms we’ve been dealing with ever since.
If only the armed forces could be untangled from Washington’s red tape and allowed to do their job…
It scares me that the military…..THE MILITARY is running on Windows.
Well, this is the same military that can’t armor up its vehicles against insurgent IED’s (despite YEARS of soldiers dying in roadside explosions). This is also the same military that decided against finishing the Iraq job 15 years ago, and sprung the can of worms we’ve been dealing with ever since.
If only the armed forces could be untangled from Washington’s red tape and allowed to do their job…
“[…] the US Military is highly security oriented, they would love to have a rock solid OS like Mac OS X running the show.
Too bad it’s tied to sissy looking hardware.”
Well, most notebooks are sissy looking.
Years and years and years ago (1988?), I was working at one of our federal military academies. Zenith Data Systems (remember them?) had just won a contract to supply all of the military academies with computers. They sold a 25 pound luggable (used a 9″ CRT) computer and they had a T-Shirt done up with these very tough looking military types carrying Zenith Desktop and Luggable computers. I managed to score one…
A few years later, Zenith did a laptop sale to the service academies. They did the same T-shirt, but the military guys were now carrying laptops.
It just didn’t look the same.
HA HA … stupid terrorists…now they have to figure out how to hack a Dell!!!! Good luck you morons.
…like anyone can hack a Dell.
Hey– Clinton goes nuts and looks like a lying jackass over the weekend with Chris Wallace, and the liberal tools come out in droves everywhere you can’t stomp on them (like cockroaches).
Clinton’s a over-sexed tool (and yes, I love sex as much as the average horny twenty-something male) and it’s typical that the first shot across the political bow in this forum comes from a puerile liberal suckhole who doesn’t even know how to use capitalization.
No wonder it was so easy for Wallace to make Clinton look like an angry, impotent asshole. All he had to do was sit back and let him speak.
“You know, the US Military is highly security oriented, they would love to have a rock solid OS like Mac OS X running the show.”
Yep, they can use them to show terrorists bad home movies, poorly composed snapshots, and music from guys who learned the guitar yesterday until they finally crack.
I can confirm that my master likes sex as much as any of the other twenty-something males I’ve met.
I just wish he’d call me in the morning.
Hey demoliton . . . . do you honestly, seriously believe what you just subimtted?
Additionally, use of terms like “puerile liberal suckhole” pretty much demolishes your credibility in my book.
Try respect, and honest thought and you might enjoy life a little more.
respectfully
Old jokes. “Q: What do you call someone who graduates in the bottom of his class from busienss school?
A: President.”
Names the ONLY President to graduate from Business school.
All these posts are about as relevant as this story was in the first place. Who gives a shit about you ultra-right wing weeners looking for any opportunity to puke up more political BS. Come election time you’re precious little dub-U is gonna reap what he has sowed. The whole Iraq war is one big boon-doggle built on a solid foundation of lies and propaganda. It’s going to be a long time before the GOP gets another opportunity like they’ve had. This is one good screwing that isn’t going to be forgotton soon. But I digress, who gives a shit about Dell and why is this story even a thread on a Mac web site?