Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:57:41 -0500 From: "Brad Benson" <bradley@softhome.net> To: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: emachines Message-ID: <000301be7b33$017bed40$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990330135831.18736H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > So, it looks like the emachine people are looking for resellers. Given a > number of successful reports concerning using FreeBSD on the emachines, it > would be cool is Walnut Creek (or someone else) started shipping $400 > machines with FreeBSD + XFree86 installed, as workstations or low-end web > servers. Presumably with the add-on option of technical support :-). Or > if they were sold as web-farm modules; at $400 for an add-on module adding > n-hundred-thousand hits a day capability. I use an Emachine at work and love what I've got for the buck. No problems yet and FreeBSD works fine all but the cheap software modem. As a reseller I would love to do many of the things you mentioned, but the only thing your forgetting is that a $400 Emachine comes with windows98 and that for a reseller to make any money off the machine they would have to raise the price to do the software install. Suddenly it's a $500 dollar Emachine for example. What would be nice is if we could talk Emachines into installing it as an option from the factory, or supplying a software free computer for a discount. I have a feeling though that there isn't a large enough market YET for Emachines to do either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?000301be7b33$017bed40$6400a8c0>