Opinion on Vista and Dapper delays

Chanchao custom at freenet.de
Fri Mar 31 04:03:30 BST 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 13:28 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> > I'd buy an Ubuntu-branded laptop. I'd pay extra for it. I want to be
> > that cool. There's money to be made here by some company that 
> > a) Sells non-branded laptops (such as the ones that become Acer, Asus,
> > or Siemens laptops here in Germany)
> 
> This wouldn't be that hard for Canonical to do.  Uniwill makes nice
> laptops that are rebranded by Averatec, Alienware, Sager, IBuyPower,
> Cyberpower, Pro(something, they're in Computer Shopper all the time with
> multi-page ads) and others, and Ubuntu works really well with them.

Also the built-in modem? :)  (Then again I guess when there's real money
coming in for the laptop itself then part of that can pay for the
Linuxant drivers)

Cheers,.
Chanchao




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