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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 01 2012 @ 10:41 AM EST |
768 isn't bad for a laptop. I run an old macbookpro developer machine with 1200
by 800. I don't think the extra 32 pixels (4 lines) makes a difference when I
fire up Emacs.
I dislike the price point however. When I buy, I like to buy at the sweet spot
which is typically 2 year old hardware (ram, disk, cpu mips, screen, weight) as
it is a lot better than my 5 year old hardware (I purchase every 3 years) and
more than good enough, and it cost half as much.
Dell has plenty of Windows machines at the sweet spot that cost $500 to $700.
But our friend Linux / Ubuntu, they only have at the $1500 level.
Either Dell is plain stupid when it comes to marketing, or they have an illegal
restraint of trade agreement with Microsoft which prevents them from offering a
Linux machine at the sweet spot.
Therefore, for a pre-integrated machine with a warranty, I am stuck with Apple.
And Apple is only getting worse with their lockdown / lock-in.
I hate this lack of availability of good Linux machines. Shuttleworth -- that
is bug 1. Don't you have enough money to get around this problem???[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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