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Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows
Fugwidzard writes "Sounds like an okay box from HP at an okay price, the NewsForge review says, but no modem, and even optional modems are Winmodems although they say they have Linux drivers for them. Plus it's not a true Linux preload - they give you a couple of Mandrake CDs and you're on your own, no support. Better than paying Microsoft tax, anyway, and a step in the right direction for HP. Supposedly they're going to have all their PCs 'Linux certified' in the near future. I hope other big PC mills do the same."
I have recently upgraded from a Cyrix M3/233 with 64 Megs of RAM to a new 3 GHz Intel Pentium IV with HyperThreading and Serial-ATA to help me at my freelance gig where I copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. On the P4 I spent about 20 minutes trying to install Adobe Arcobat 6. 20 minutes. At home, on my PowerMac 4400 with a 233 MHz G3 upgrade, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my Nomad Jukebox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even IE is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a PC that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite the x86's faster chip architecture. My PowerMac 4400 with MacOS 8.2, a three row extension startup and Kaliedoscope runs faster than this P4 3GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the wintel is a superior machine.
Wintel addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a wintel over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
You Fail It!
-God
I would like to point out a few things. First I think the fact that the system is shipped w/o mandrake installed is good (for lack of better vocab) because it allows you to customize it as much as you want to. Whos to say that HP would know what kind of compliers and servers you want running on your pc. On the flip side why not just install all the services mandrake has to offer. And if there were to be another flip side it would be that mandrake is not really customizable so who cares just install the whole thing. I mean it is obvious that no one reading these posts would buy such a low end computer when they could build one for free. The people that are going to buy it are the same people that couldnt configure linux if their lives depended on it. Second mandrake is a French company (French moderators move on and read the next post) I had mandrake running on my system and I was too lazy to switch to debian eventhough it was my time in the Linux evolutionary order. After recent events I have not used mandrake in about a year and am running soley on debian.
If I wanted easy I wouldnt be an engineer or a patriot.
Kind of like your giflfriend? Oh, right, slashdot. Like your mom then.
The ones I put together look better than the one in the picture.
Ahhh, the joy of the plastic snatch.
What's the point of shelling out the big bucks for something that doesn't even look good?
Because the ugly ones give better head, Danielsan. And your mom gives the best.
Somehow I get the feeling I should have read the article...
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
What a tool you are.
It doesn't matter how much it is. The fact that you have to pay a fee to Microsoft if you want to buy a computer is complete bullshit, and the fact that you play it down shows that you are, indeed, a jackass.
Oh, and shut the hell up.
So basically this is getting a computer $100 cheaper... so you can install your pirated copy of XP for free.
MORTAR COMBAT!
Oh come one - who the hell uses those still. Even the people out in the hills have some kind of highspeed access, DSL, DirectPC, or some other form of wirless like P2P (Point to Point). And the fact that these services are low in cost (around $40/mo for a 1.5mb connection) there isn;t any reason to keep including modems in systems. Especially if the systems are "name brand off the shelf for the popular crowd" - meaning most people.
Then again I understand the linux community likes their systems old and unique and would rather spend money tweaking and shogunning their modems than spending half the amount on a newer and more productive piece of hardware.
Don't mind me it's too early in the morning to make too much sense....
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