A bit more like it.

[Tony Alfrey]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 06:57, David Bandel wrote:
>> On 1/29/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> David Bandel wrote:
>>>> On 1/29/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday 29 January 2007 11:31 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>>>>>> I personally do not like Dell, but for those who do:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us&c
>>>>>>> s =19&l=en&s=dhs
>>>>>> It strikes me that if they offer no support on the box, that they've
>>>>>> dramatically reduced their overall costs on this thing.  Therefore,
>>>>>> they should be nearly giving the thing away.  This is a no-risk move.
>>>>>> They tell their marketing guys to post the web page.  If they sell
>>>>>> six boxes, they covered their investment to compose the page.  The
>>>>>> rest is gravy.
>>>>> Now if they would provide laptops with eraser button mouse pads :-).
>>>> This is the main reason I buy Dell laptops -- the nice Synaptics
>>>> touchpad.  I hate the erasers -- too hard to use.  (Ugh - me vi, you
>>>> emacs - ugh).
>>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>>
>>>> David A. Bandel
>>> I did not see any laptops on that page  ;-)
>> No, and don't hold your breath on that any time soon.  I can buy
>> systems without an OS.  You can't buy a laptop that way because you
>> can't buy a laptop as a barebones system and put it together yourself.
>>  So expect to pay the "Bill Tax" on them for a very long time yet.
> 
> If the Dell name isn't the issue:
> http://system76.com/

Hmmm. . .  I think I just found my next machine.



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Tony Alfrey
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