[Leaplist] Re: More Anti-Linux Propaganda from MicroSuck and Worst Buy

[Kevin Korb]

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Yeah, I have done similar things at BB just not with a laptop.  Just don't
ever buy cables from them (Monster).  I almost bought my Yamaha receiver
from them a while back but when I went home to double check the specs and
compare with other models I discovered that I could buy the same thing for
the same price direct from Yamaha with free shipping and no sales tax so
that is what I did instead.  Speaker wire came from Sky Craft though.

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:22 -0700 (PDT)
"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> I have a long-standing history of what Microsoft does at Best Buy.
> I have a long-standing history of what Microsoft does at Tier-1 PC OEMs.
> 
> 
> Do I boycott any of them?  Of course not.
> 
> I fully take advantage of Microsoft's "subsidy" at Best Buy and Tier-1
> PC OEMs.  I buy things they are losing money on, and ignore all their
> sales for over-priced, huge mark-up accessories, even as they are
> nearly tackling me out-the-door.
> 
> I don't ever mention I run Linux (made that mistake once, and got the
> "you don't like Windows or something?" comment), I just cheerfully buy
> what they are going to lose money on.  That's their approach and I take
> full advantage of it.
> 
> My over year old personal laptop is a Best Buy-only Gateway P-7811FX,
> a model configuration solely sold at Best Buy at a loss.  Gateway doesn't
> support it and I have to go to Geek Squad if I have an issue.  I haven't
> had an issue because I run Linux.
> 
> In fact, the pre-installed MS Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit that
> comes with it had several driver issues that Fedora 9+ x86 and x86-64
> did not upon installation and with every update (now at Fedora 11).
> Everything is supported natively -- from suspend to hibernate, from
> wireless (including coming back from suspension) to the nVidia power
> save to 3D.  And it's better than Vista at suspension/hibernate as well.
> 
> I thank Best Buy for letting me get a notebook with a GeForce Go 9800GTS
> 512GiB GDDR discrete RAM (over 1GiB with shared), 4GiB DDR3 RAM,
> high-res 1920x1200 LCD panel, etc... for half the price of an
> equivalently equipped Dell XPS notebook (basically the only vendor that
> offered anything close).
> 
> Today I'd likely give my business to a Tier-2 recently mentioned on the
> list that pre-installs Linux instead, but I like my inexpensive Gateway
> notebook that continues to work flawlessly for over a year.
> 
> 
> 
>  -- 
> Bryan J  Smith           Professional, Technical Annoyance 
> Linked Profile:         http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith 
> ---------------------------------------------------------- 
> Red Hat:  That 'other' American software company built on
> open customer selection of options and value, instead of
> controlled distribution channels of forced bundle and lock
> 
> 


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