Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

[Matthias Czapla <dermatsch@gmx.de>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:47:18AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:01:14AM -0500, Steve Vejcik wrote:
> > 
> > Folks,
> >      Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps
> >    using) Debian on a SONY Desktop?  I'm eyeballing one of their
> >    RS600 series machines but am worried about compatibility with
> >    hardware, especially the "integrated ethernet" for which no
> >    other information can be found.  It'd be nice to know I can
> >    get internet connectivity before I start trying to fix other
> >    issues...
> >             Thanks,
> >              Steve Vejcik
> > 
> 
> Avoid them if you care about customer support. Theirs is even worse
> then not having any.

Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product made by that
company. They actively try to reduce compatibility and are great
supporters of Digital-Restrictions-Management junk (e.g. Notebooks
only work with their own expensive RAM modules; pushing yet another
completely superfluous and otherwise hardly supported flash memory
type in the market (of course with DRM built-in) etc. etc.).

Regards
Matthias