Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 03, 2007 09:57 AM
Sure, buy an older laptop. Fine. This is not an older laptop. It is a brand new _overpriced_ laptop. This is not competing with 7 year old NEC's with PCMCIA NICs and proprietary interfaces to bizarre external hardware. This is competing with affordable mass produced notebooks with competitive and largely standardised features.
The people shopping in that price bracket arent going to think "Hey, I'll pay more so I can get linux!"
What may happen is, that people in the market for a new laptop and exploring the range will think "Hey, Linux laptops are under spec'd and over priced" and that is a damned shame because that really does undersell linux.
For info, I have been through 3 laptops. They have all been mid to lower range. They were all bought based on feature set and they all ran linux without a hitch. Your comment about windows not having perfect hardware support just reinforces my position. If you have to deal with niggling issues ANYHOW, why not get something that is good value and well kitted out and deal with the issues to get whatever OS you desire working? As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, Darter could really make a distinctive place for itself by supporting THAT market rather than being a perpetual minnow in a market it cannot compete in.
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Re:Your post does not make much sense
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 03, 2007 09:57 AMThis is not an older laptop. It is a brand new _overpriced_ laptop. This is not competing with 7 year old NEC's with PCMCIA NICs and proprietary interfaces to bizarre external hardware. This is competing with affordable mass produced notebooks with competitive and largely standardised features.
The people shopping in that price bracket arent going to think "Hey, I'll pay more so I can get linux!"
What may happen is, that people in the market for a new laptop and exploring the range will think "Hey, Linux laptops are under spec'd and over priced" and that is a damned shame because that really does undersell linux.
For info, I have been through 3 laptops. They have all been mid to lower range. They were all bought based on feature set and they all ran linux without a hitch.
Your comment about windows not having perfect hardware support just reinforces my position. If you have to deal with niggling issues ANYHOW, why not get something that is good value and well kitted out and deal with the issues to get whatever OS you desire working? As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, Darter could really make a distinctive place for itself by supporting THAT market rather than being a perpetual minnow in a market it cannot compete in.
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