We've just started here by taking over Tuxtop's Line. We want to add some lower priced units,
and we have several units here to test.
If you think that $1,200 is too much for a "low-end" laptop, please tell us, and it looks as if you have.
On another point, we do *LISTEN* to our customers, which is why we offer the desktop systems that we do. We are starting to listen and we are seeing what the community wants as far as linux laptops go.
Didn't Dell just lay off a bunch of workers?
We are here in the midwest, taking advantage of a low cost of living, and we've been doing this for almost three years now. We were profitable after about 5 months, and we continue to show good profits.
We do this beacause we love Linux, and will continue to do so as long as we enjoy doing so.
I'll let the dot-com millionaires have their beamers.... I'm happy with my Dodge Dakota Sport.
We've seen a lot of concern about the price and quality of the Linux Laptops We are offering.
There is *NO* way that we would be carrying these units if they were junk, (I know the definition of Junk is vague).
The King and Emperor are made by a company called Compal, who makes most of Dell's laptops.
As a matter of fact, the Emperor, and the Dell Inspiron 5000e are the *SAME* unit.
The Chinstrap is a cranky unit, we will admit. That unit is made by ASUS, (Yes the same company that makes motherboards) Tuxtops used to offer dual boot options on their laptops, something which we dumped for the most part a long, long time ago, henece the reason why some of these units have some unsupported/semi-supported hardware.
As for price, we seem to be in line with everyone else, however we are more concerned about quality, and reliability, than price. take a look at our systems..... Certainly not no-name junk parts (ASUS, Creative, ATI, Matrox)
I hope this may clear any questions the Slashdot crowd may have about these laptops. If you have a concern, e-mail us, please. We've been doing this for almost three years now, and we wouldn't be where we are at if we didn't listen to our customers.
We can understand your concerns over quality,
however the Emperor is made by Compal, the same company that build Dell's laptops.
The Emperor is the Compal N38W2, also Known as the Dell Inspiron 5000e, not some cheap flimsy unit. Plus our unit is about $300.00 less than Dell's unit M$ Tax maybe???
Last we checked the ATI Rage Mobility Chipset is *WELL* supported under XFree 4.01
The only way we are going get get companies like Lucent to finally provide drivers is to show that people will *BUY* their products.
The Emperor, and King are built by Compal, (no, not a typo Compal, not Compaq) and the Emperor is the *SAME* unit as the Dell Inspiron 5000e, last we checked we were about $300.00 less than Dell on this unit.
Regarding sound:
The Chinstrap is a cranky unit, and is more well suited to a dual boot setup. Cirrus Logic Just sent us "production" audio drivers for the King,
and we've had *NO* problems with the Emperor under R.H 7.0 / 7.1 Beta.
As per an earlier post, Most of Tuxtops' field data was based on RH 6.1 / 6.2
One last note, when is the last time you've seen a good high quality laptop without a built in modem?
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Hatless,
See our post regarding quality, and price of our systems.
The laptops are *NOT* no-name piles of junk, they are built by the same company that builds Dell's laptops.
Our top-end "Emperor" laptop is the *SAME* unit as the Dell Inspiron 5000e, and we are several hundred dollars less.
Does it run Linux????
We've just started here by taking over Tuxtop's Line.
We want to add some lower priced units, and we have several units here to test.
If you think that $1,200 is too much for a "low-end" laptop, please tell us, and it looks as if you have.
On another point, we do *LISTEN* to our customers, which is why we offer the desktop systems that we do.
We are starting to listen and we are seeing what the community wants as far as linux laptops go.
Seriously, we do appreciate your concerns,
we did have our webmaster change a few things on the disclosure pages, so as to make things less confusing.
Didn't Dell just lay off a bunch of workers?
We are here in the midwest, taking advantage of a low cost of living, and we've been doing this for almost three years now.
We were profitable after about 5 months, and we continue to show good profits.
We do this beacause we love Linux, and will continue to do so as long as we enjoy doing so.
I'll let the dot-com millionaires have their beamers.... I'm happy with my Dodge Dakota Sport.
We've seen a lot of concern about the price and quality of the Linux Laptops We are offering.
There is *NO* way that we would be carrying these units if they were junk, (I know the definition of Junk is vague).
The King and Emperor are made by a company called Compal, who makes most of Dell's laptops.
As a matter of fact, the Emperor, and the Dell Inspiron 5000e are the *SAME* unit.
The Chinstrap is a cranky unit, we will admit. That unit is made by ASUS, (Yes the same company that makes motherboards)
Tuxtops used to offer dual boot options on their laptops, something which we dumped for the most part a long, long time ago, henece the reason why some of these units have some unsupported/semi-supported hardware.
As for price, we seem to be in line with everyone else, however we are more concerned about quality, and reliability, than price. take a look at our systems..... Certainly not no-name junk parts (ASUS, Creative, ATI, Matrox)
I hope this may clear any questions the Slashdot crowd may have about these laptops. If you have a concern, e-mail us, please. We've been doing this for almost three years now, and we wouldn't be where we are at if we didn't listen to our customers.
We can understand your concerns over quality,
however the Emperor is made by Compal, the same company that build Dell's laptops.
The Emperor is the Compal N38W2, also Known as the Dell Inspiron 5000e, not some cheap flimsy unit.
Plus our unit is about $300.00 less than Dell's unit M$ Tax maybe???
Last we checked the ATI Rage Mobility Chipset is *WELL* supported under XFree 4.01
Shotgun,
We are sorry you feel our prices are too high, and we are currently looking into a good high quality laptop unit in the $1,000 - $1,400 range.
Last we knew, the Emperor was about $300.00 less than the Dell Inspiron 5000e, (Both units are the Compal N38W2)
diz,
The only way we are going get get companies like Lucent to finally provide drivers is to show that people will *BUY* their products.
The Emperor, and King are built by Compal, (no, not a typo Compal, not Compaq) and the Emperor is the *SAME* unit as the Dell Inspiron 5000e, last we checked we were about $300.00 less than Dell on this unit.
Regarding sound:
The Chinstrap is a cranky unit, and is more well suited to a dual boot setup. Cirrus Logic Just sent us "production" audio drivers for the King, and we've had *NO* problems with the Emperor under R.H 7.0 / 7.1 Beta.
As per an earlier post, Most of Tuxtops' field data was based on RH 6.1 / 6.2
One last note, when is the last time you've seen a good high quality laptop without a built in modem?
We are in the process of testing the Chinstrap with Red Hat 7.0 / 7.1 Beta. Some of our field info is from reports by Graham and the guys at Tuxtops.
:-)
By the way, congrats on your knowledge of Penguins.