A bit more like it.

[Tony Alfrey]

David Bandel wrote:
> On 1/30/07, Matthew Carpenter <mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> 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/
>>
>>
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Why do you think so?  I pretended to buy the cheap laptop and it 
certainly got to the place where it wanted my money.


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