__/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 01 March 2007 19:28 \__
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 03:41 Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <d7fhb4-uij.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > So what, eSys continues to sell high spec machines preloaded with
>>> > Linux at a fraction of the cost - 128 pounds.
>>> > http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/store/26/cat/Business-PCs
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hm. Not horribly useful for me, regrettably. :-)
>>> (You lucky Brits you. :-) Then again, there's a few
>>
>> Did you actually look at the specs for that machine? 2.53 GHz Celeron.
>> 80 GB hard disk. 256 MB of RAM. DVD-ROM. That's not been "high spec"
>> for a long long time.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> However, I doubt that Americans generally appreciate what we pay for pea
> sees here - or for Windows, for that matter.
> These things are relative.
> Please feel free to point us to other sites where somebody in the U.K. can
> buy a computer with a similar spec. for less, and particularly one with
> Windows installed.
At home, I use a weaker machine than this, with KDE. It cost very little and
it does everything that I require. At work I have a 1.8 GHz machine. The
cost/worth of such machines is lower than that of Vista Home Edition.
Hardware became cheap. Who is (still) paying for software?
Linux will benefit a _great deal_ from discarded hardware that could no
longer run Windows (Vista). Some of it will be up for grabs (for free!). I
even got my monitor for free, but insisted on paying for it.
It's funny how, at least in the computer world, there are parallel universes.
Apple Toy Shop aside, some people treat PCs like a cheap commodity while for
others it's some multi tri/billion industry with shrink-wrapped anti-virus
software, Adobe licences and pricey forced 'upgrades' of software.
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