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____/ High Plains Thumper on Thursday 17 Dec 2009 01:14 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> High Plains Thumper on Tuesday:
>>
>>> Roy, I've noticed you using what appears to be 40 character lines.
>>> You wouldn't happen to be using a Commodore 64 as TTY into your
>>> Linux machine? :-)
>>
>> I modified the settings/preferences because KNode in KDE4 works
>> differently.
>
> Okay, nothing wrong with that. Perhaps a preference style as the mark
> of a signature?
>
>>>> This is a somewhat dodgy report from a company that sells
>>>> extended warranties. It does not indicate what sort of problems
>>>> these machines have. It could well be that battery problems or
>>>> sticky keys are rated equally with failed mainboards.
>>>>
>>>> What I can say is I have had three Toshiba laptops and they have
>>>> all died shortly after the three year warranty expired. In each
>>>> case, it was the video that died.
>>>>
>>>> Unless Asus have upped their game, I find it somewhat suspicious
>>>> that they are rated as most reliable, as they used to be very
>>>> bad.
>>>>
>>>> Most of the people who have MacBooks only complain of the battery
>>>> giving problems. My wife's MacBook Pro is five years old and
>>>> still going strong.
>>>>
>>>> In the end, this white paper is really about trying to convince
>>>> people to buy expensive extended warranties, which in most cases
>>>> are of no value at all.
>>>
>>> I think Apple has had better hardware reliability than Microsoft's
>>> Zune and Xbox. After reading the horror stories, I am glad I don't
>>> have either of those products in my home.
>>
>> Indeed. A Toshiba laptop also comes with Linux and Solaris (yes, they
>> sold some preinstalled).
>>
>> Does Apple just offshore all its actual hardware development to
>> Foxconn et al?
>
> That I really don't know and haven't followed up on.
>
>> It is possible that Apple uses the very same components as a "PC"...
>> made in the very same factories on the same assembly lines in fact.
>>
>> Apple makes its casing too in Asia.
>
> Many of the manufacturers are using China factories, because they
> produce quality items at a considerable savings, considering the labour
> factor.I bought a Roland GW-7 MIDI keyboard for $729 US with free
> shipping on closeout. It is made in China. If it were made in Japan,
> would be about $400 US more, IMHO.
>
>>> An odd occurrence happened with my dual boot Acer Aspire One
>>> netbook. It appeared to be DOA. Then I did a net search, found it
>>> was possibly a BIOS bug. I downloaded the new BIOS, saved to a USB
>>> stick. Then followed directions.
>>>
>>> Lo and behold, the system came to life. Apparently, once the
>>> battery died, the bug prevented the netbook from properly charging
>>> and from starting up with a dead battery, although connected to the
>>> charger.
>>>
>>> I have been happy with the netbook, except it has about an hour and
>>> half of battery life. The additional memory and hard drive so it
>>> could be sold with Windows XP is a drain on battery life.
>>>
>>> The Linux netbooks here in US have dried up except for OEM's like
>>> Dell.
>>
>> You can't extrapolate from that. Linux laptops (not just netbooks)
>> are hot in Germany and France, for example.
>
> I think the German law is more progressively fair than US. After all,
> they ruled the Microsoft FAT patent as invalid (based on prior art and
> easy to duplicate, AFAIK).
>
>>> It is rather sad that apparently, uncompetitive measures through
>>> special deals (and I would not be surprised of unfavourable
>>> business threats) have taken their toll, causing harm to the
>>> consumer.
>>>
>>> AFAIK, Windows 7 does not run on a true, lite netbook. Also
>>> equally disparaging is the lack of the ARM netbook in US, which
>>> would have been a hit I believe, similar to the inexpensive 8-bit
>>> home computers that showed up in the early 1980's. Those home
>>> computers taught many the rudiments of computer language through
>>> BASIC and embedded hand assembly, addressing memory, I/O and
>>> graphics, and etc.
>>>
>>> Thus, advanced hardware along with expensive software is not
>>> necessarily what the consumer wants. I believe the days of the
>>> thick computer are coming to a close, except for hindrances through
>>> artificially created legal entanglements and monopoly maintenances.
>>>
>>>
>> These monopolies are probably not seen as "bad" by those who run
>> things. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/182
>
> Of course. Despotic rulers thought similar, that their actions were not
> seen as bad but justified. That didn't make it any more right.
Maybe leaders and rulers too should be offshored... for savings... of
the nation.
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