On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:25 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Apricot box, but I've no idea what OS.
I wouldn't worry Apricot didn't have much idea either....
To those that didn't have the pleasure, Apricot made some truly lovely innovative hardware that unfortunately was only 90% IBM compatible...usually the 10% was the bit you needed to run some important app. I also seem to remember that you also had to run a slightly tweaked version of DOS on them, I think they could also run CP/M.
I think the F series machines were the first to have a wireless keyboard...in 84/85 !
The price was 1,5000 or thereabouts, and he tried *VERY* hard to persuade me that I didn't need the UPS, but I knew better...
I hope there is an extra zero added by mistake there :-)
But this is the sort of service that a lot of people don't seem to value any more, or at least not so much that they'll refuse the latest special offer from Dell or PC World
Well, as long as the profit margins on selling M$ and Mac software remain so high, they're not going to push Linux, even if they know about it and prefer it.
Your joking right, the retailer or reseller makes hardly anything out of the licences...particularly true if you are talking about OEM rather than boxed product.
If fact there is little margin on most desktop software.
The main problem is that it's almost impossible to buy brand name machines without an OEM Windows License, and frankly these days the economics of building a machine to order are dubious unless there is a specific reason to do so (i.e. the spec requested is not available)