Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

["Martin J. Hillyer" <mhillyer@marincounty.net>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:48:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> 
> I can go into any local-owned computer store and they'll sell me a
> machine comparable to Dell's offerings at around half the price and
> they'll back thier work.  $1500 is quite expensive for a single PC.
> 
> - -- 
>  .''`.     Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
> : :'  :    proud Debian admin and user
> `. `'`

And it will probably have an industry standard power
supply/motherboard connector (unlike the Dell).

See, e.g.

http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade3_01_01.asp

Cheers
-- 
Martin Hillyer