Re: [SLUG] Recommendations - Laptop / Notebook Running Linux (RH62)

[Jon Biddell <jon@nospam.fl.net.au>]

At 07:23 PM 5/30/00, Matt Allen wrote:
>Gday
>
>I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 running RH6.2 which was upgraded from 6.1.
>Works like a dream ! Dell released drivers for the 10/100 3com network
>card and the funky on-board sound.

<much snipping>

Did you purchase this with EvilWare and blow it away, or with Linux (or no 
OS ?)

I was about to plonk down a sizable slab of discretionary income for a 
Gateway 9300XLS (15.3" screen, 18Gb HD, 256Mb RAM) and had an argument with 
them about the old Windows licencing agreement - their comment was that 
it's too hard, and removing Windows would only drop $10 off the price 
because of their licencing agreement with TSOS (The Spawn Of Satan).

I was, on a matter of principle and because I refused to accept the licence 
agreement, prepared to accept the miniscule reduction in price, but the 
Gateway store at Castle Hill wouldn't hear of it. When I told them that 
they had just blown an $8k+ sale (and even showed them the $$$ to prove it 
!!), they had the hide to say "... your attitude is wrong - all you Linux 
nuts are the same, you want something for nothing".. How he reached that 
conclusion is still a mystery.

Jon

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