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From: Priam on 1 Jan 2010 16:48 On 01/01/2010 04:05 PM, JF Mezei wrote: > Robert Haar wrote: > >> Priam. The best way to fix a PC running Windows is to format the disc and >> install LINUX. > > The problem is that you have still contributed to Microsoft's profits by > paying the WIndows tax when buying that PC. Yes, but if you buy your computer from large OEMs like Dell or HP, you don't pay more. In Europe, as I explained time and again, you may ask for refund. That's why, if you intent to install Linux it makes more sense to buy from a local shop that won't force you into buying Linux and offer ebtter service than large chains. Of course, you must make sure that the shop owner isn't biased to the point that he says he won't support your hardware if you use Linux. First, this would mean he's really stupid since he's paying at least thrice the price Dell pays for Windows. (Though, admittedly, those shops do a fortune just cleaning viruses and reformatting HD on computers that come from chain stores :) Nowadays, there aren't many of those shops left: they all went bankrupt. In this kind of context, knowledge pays more than prejudice.
From: JF Mezei on 1 Jan 2010 17:14 Priam, you may be able to get cheap PCs, but you're not getting the status symbol of the lighted Apple logo on your laptop... :-)
From: Priam on 1 Jan 2010 17:26 On 01/01/2010 05:14 PM, JF Mezei wrote: > Priam, you may be able to get cheap PCs, but you're not getting the > status symbol of the lighted Apple logo on your laptop... :-) Yep! Cheap better than Mac quality PCs. The absence of the Apple logo preaches in favor of a sound purchase. :)
From: JF Mezei on 1 Jan 2010 17:50 Priam wrote: > Yep! Cheap better than Mac quality PCs. The absence of the Apple logo > preaches in favor of a sound purchase. :) Since we're talking "sound"... IS your cheap PC able to send Dolby 5.1 or DTS surround sound over optical fibre to a stereo ? The Macs can.
From: VAXman- on 1 Jan 2010 19:04
In article <00b6f141$0$1586$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> writes: >Robert Haar wrote: > >> Priam. The best way to fix a PC running Windows is to format the disc and >> install LINUX. > >The problem is that you have still contributed to Microsoft's profits by >paying the WIndows tax when buying that PC. .... and advertizing for M$ too because the keyboard meta-key is most likely flying the M$ swastika. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" |