You have missed the point. The education market is not training people to be IT professionals; they are trying to prepare them for life. If the student is interested in tech and Linux then there are classes for that, but for the majority of students they have no interest. They need computers that will read and edit WordPerfect and Word documents, computers that will interface with the software they have at home with little or no effort. Face it most people have no interest in *nix systems and will probably not have a use for it in the near future.
I understand your enthusiasm for the community, but you need to learn to look at the world from a different point of view.
Tom's in the past has been a very good site for tech, and yes it has been lagging lately, but was has been put out new in the past 18 months? You can't say the "P!!!" it's just a PII ona smaller die and a beefed up bus, Athlon was very well covered and explained but that's about it. Intel hasn't released a new mother board standard (of any use) in a LONG time, all the boards are BX now anyway. I also don't view the Intel 810 with all the intergrated sh** very useful at all.
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You have missed the point. The education market is not training people to be IT professionals; they are trying to prepare them for life. If the student is interested in tech and Linux then there are classes for that, but for the majority of students they have no interest. They need computers that will read and edit WordPerfect and Word documents, computers that will interface with the software they have at home with little or no effort. Face it most people have no interest in *nix systems and will probably not have a use for it in the near future.
I understand your enthusiasm for the community, but you need to learn to look at the world from a different point of view.
Tom's in the past has been a very good site for tech, and yes it has been lagging lately, but was has been put out new in the past 18 months? You can't say the "P!!!" it's just a PII ona smaller die and a beefed up bus, Athlon was very well covered and explained but that's about it. Intel hasn't released a new mother board standard (of any use) in a LONG time, all the boards are BX now anyway. I also don't view the Intel 810 with all the intergrated sh** very useful at all.