Dell: Proprietary floppy?

[Aosh]

Hey,

I'm real close to getting a Dell (for the deal out right now, I just can't beat the price building a custom one), but I was wondering...

To add a floppy A drive, it's an extra $30. When floppy drives should be costing no more than $15 at most, and avg more around $7-$11.

But I think I read somewhere that you can't just buy a standard floppy and use it on a Dell. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[Anubis]

any floppy drive will work

 

[TechnoKid]

If you don't order the computer with a floppy, dell will not sell you the bracket you need in order to use the floppy bay.

 

[DrCool]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
If you don't order the computer with a floppy, dell will not sell you the bracket you need in order to use the floppy bay.

isn't that thoughtfull of them..

dang, they are so customer oriented! :disgust:

 

[thirdlegstump]

Well it's the drive bracket that costs a lot.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: DrCool

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
If you don't order the computer with a floppy, dell will not sell you the bracket you need in order to use the floppy bay.

isn't that thoughtfull of them..

dang, they are so customer oriented! :disgust:

Because your average consumer is going to know how to add a floppy drive.

 

[techwanabe]

I noticed that too.... I'm thinking about the same system... have till Monday evening 25th.

But after using USB Pen drives, I don't see any point. Regardless, I'll have a 2nd back up computer with a floppy if I need to copy stuff off old disks to the PC without a floppy. I have a spare floppy floating around here so I guess I'll be challenged with mounting if possibly.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

have you lookied into what you can and cannot do with a dell? if you want to do ANYTHING with your computer besides adding ram, might want to build your own computer

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
have you lookied into what you can and cannot do with a dell? if you want to do ANYTHING with your computer besides adding ram, might want to build your own computer

Not quite that bad. I've opened my mom's and sisters Dells, they are the older systems - PIII 450 and PIII 667 - the worst thing was the motherboard mounted on twistytop standoffs and the case connector was a proprietary single plug to the mobo. My sisters had RAMBUS so I couldn't even add a spare stick of memory to it. But hard drives and CD drive mountings were easy to deal with, I added a LiteOn CD burner.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
have you lookied into what you can and cannot do with a dell? if you want to do ANYTHING with your computer besides adding ram, might want to build your own computer

Don't spread FUD. Have you ever heard of Dell 400SC server? Plenty of people buy these things when on sale for around $300 and add things and use it as their desktop.