[Leaplist] Fwd: [vox] [fwd] Alienware soliciting people's views about Linux on Alienware laptops

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 23:09 -0500, pberry2 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> > hate to be negative here, but meh, who cares.  Alienware = Dell and we 
> > know what Dell is doing with the requests of the public.
> >
> 
> I am not being negative when I say that Alienware is no threat to the 
> Microsoft Empire, when compared to what weight Dell swings amongst 
> consumers, and especially the competition like Acer, Lenovo, Gateway, 
> eMachines, Toshiba, IBM, Sony, etc. 
> 
> Where Dell goes, others might follow!  Only takes one of the giants to 
> make the move, just like in the cell phone industry...

My current issue with the laptops being offered without an OS, or with
FreeDOS, is that they do not have high-end graphics subsystems.  I have
a NVidia 7600GT on my desktop, and I expect the same or better on a
laptop.

Even System76 does not have a high end graphics option.  EmperorLinux
does, but good lord you have to pay thru the nose for those. :)
-- 
Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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