Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:33:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bradley@softhome.net (Brad Benson) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emachines Message-ID: <199903312233.PAA25333@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <000301be7b33$017bed40$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> from "Brad Benson" at Mar 30, 99 11:57:41 pm
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> 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. I guess you are assuming that they won't give you a discount for no Windows installed... have you asked? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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