[ale] $299 Linux PC's

[Sean Kilpatrick]

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On Saturday 09 August 2003 05:11 pm, Eric Melo wrote:
> What is Sam's Club? is it a store??
> And why all the entiasm in geting a box all setup?

Sam's Club is a competitor of Costco and other "discount"
marketers who require an annual fee to shop in their stores.
Careful shopping can net significant savings -- but all
items come packaged in large amounts. This is fine when
feeding teenagers or running a boarding house, not so useful
for a married couple whose children are long gone from the
nest.

The appearance of a low-end computer with any verison of
Linux already installed is significant as it marks a crack,
even if microscopically small, in M$'s monolothic structure.
By way of comparison, the other computers on the showroom floor
this afternoon all had Windows SP Home Edition as the installed
OS.

Sean

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