Say what? Nearly every US merchant I've come across ships internationally, and I've never come across one who wouldn't accept a non-US credit card. I don't think so. I live in South America and the selection of stuff that you can send over here is very limited. Basically, you can only buy music CD's (are people still using those?) or books, and there's also limitations on those. On top of that, there are sites that limits the buying process to US billing addresses, so, no international credit card support. There are a lot of stuff that should be done in that particular case
I think that Acer is missing the point on how the market works. Come on, it's customers who decide which OS they want on their PC's. Saying that customers won't want a version of Vista or another is simply being ignorant. They should offer the basic version and their respective upgrades (reminds me of the Dell or Alienware online store where you can choose which version do you want) and finally it should be the user who decides which OS suits him better or not. As for Linux, I think that the basic user already know how to use Windows and they will not be taking the risk to use a new OS, they know that Windows simply works, it runs the applications and do the things they want to do. As somebody else said, if Linux get native support for Win applications and a much better game support, it could broaden its market.
I think that if children are going to use those laptops, they won't notice if there are proprietary parts on their laptops... After all, children are going to use them to do homework for school, and probably for a little gaming. Maybe some teenagers will care about upgradeable firmware and stuff, but I think that the aim of those laptops isn't precisely the "geek" segment of those teens.
I don't know what you mean with this, Sidewinder peripherals and Intellimouse series have nice designs that should've been taken into account, even when they didn't followed their own designs with the first Xbox controller, different divisions I guess XD
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I think that Acer is missing the point on how the market works. Come on, it's customers who decide which OS they want on their PC's. Saying that customers won't want a version of Vista or another is simply being ignorant. They should offer the basic version and their respective upgrades (reminds me of the Dell or Alienware online store where you can choose which version do you want) and finally it should be the user who decides which OS suits him better or not. As for Linux, I think that the basic user already know how to use Windows and they will not be taking the risk to use a new OS, they know that Windows simply works, it runs the applications and do the things they want to do. As somebody else said, if Linux get native support for Win applications and a much better game support, it could broaden its market.
I think that if children are going to use those laptops, they won't notice if there are proprietary parts on their laptops... After all, children are going to use them to do homework for school, and probably for a little gaming. Maybe some teenagers will care about upgradeable firmware and stuff, but I think that the aim of those laptops isn't precisely the "geek" segment of those teens.
I don't know what you mean with this, Sidewinder peripherals and Intellimouse series have nice designs that should've been taken into account, even when they didn't followed their own designs with the first Xbox controller, different divisions I guess XD