__/ [ chrisv ] on Tuesday 23 January 2007 21:08 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
>>
>>,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
>>| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
>>| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
>>| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
>>| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
>>| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
>>| remote control."
>>`----
>
> Actually, the above might make "Home Basic" the best one of the bunch.
> 8)
In he sense that it enables the oEM to sell an underpowered (and thus
cheaper) unit? What happens when the shopper decides to upgrade to Ultimate
in order to unlock features? People already report that one gig of RAM is
not enough for good Vista performance. This means that not only will the
shopper be forced to pay an additional $200 for software (double that in
Europe), but there will also be a hardware upgrade involved. In summary, a
brand-new PC with Basic may be incomplete, hardware- and software-wise. It's
like a teaser. DRM imprisons the customer, making an escape (or downgrade)
and impossibility.
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