Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
Dude :-)
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:07:08PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:22:22PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer (mhillyer@marincounty.net) wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > 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
>
> Not just power supplies. I've got a Dell (dude!) that has nonstandard
> RAM and video connectors sitting on my desk (it's the client's, not
> mine, thank Fnord).
Memory (especially for notebook PC) always came with the weired spec
issues (3.3 V vs. 5 V, ...), so it does not surpise me but why video
connector?
Old Japanese notebook PC (sony, toshiba) came with nonstandard
connectors which required special cable but not DELL. I thought US
market demanded industry standard. After all their DELL PC are bulkey?
Are you talking about X200 ultrathin PC?
Are these memory looks different?
Osamu
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