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To: AK2004 who wrote (53188)	8/30/2001 11:59:14 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: He told me that he may be wrong but the policy of the company is to buy dell I surprised they don't try to keep the actuaries happy and tell the IT Nazis to shove it, rather than keeping the IT guys happy and telling the actuaries to shove it. Not giving an actuary the computational tools he needs shows pretty poor judgement on somebody's part. Try getting some of your fellow actuaries to point out that your mission is analysis, not keeping Dell happy, then get some SMP Athlons in and watch the numbers fly! (So far this week I've ordered 4 of them, for users in two different groups - just point skeptics to the test results at Anandtech and AcesHardware, then show the relative prices of a Dell Dual Xeon and just about anybody's Athlon MP, and another Athlon MP is on its way!). If your IT people want to keep spending your budget on low performance, high priced junk, suggest that they find some other organization in which to exercise their Dell fetish. Good IT people can be hard to find, but good actuaries are a lot harder to find - your organization should be trying to make the actuary's lives easier, rather than than those of the IT guys. Just because your company's IT organization is full of lazy morons is no reason for you to have to struggle with inferior equipment (particularly when that inferior equipment is overpriced).