Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:01:09PM -0800, Osamu Aoki (osamu@debian.org) wrote:
> 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?
This is a desktop system.
The video is something I've never seen, though there's an adapter for
it, didn't realize it was different until I went to hook another system
to the monitor.
Peace.
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