Re: Sniff...I WANT RANT!
Posted by Tricob on .
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>3. Anyone remember Game.Com? it was a toy/handheld video game system that was pretty ahead of its time. It featured things like a touch screen, features like a memo pad and address book, and even internet access(at a blazing 14.4kb/s)! Now seriously, how dull is the Nintendo DS when the Game.Com came up with so much of the same functions 8 or 9 years before! HA!
I'd seen PCs with touch screens, also ... about the same time Game.COM came out. They didn't appear to be new, either. It was in a public library, where I did volunteer work in a non-profit agency.
>1. What do you think of Sears selling Mirus PCs with a Linux OS installed?
All for it, and always will be. :-) I'm more than interested in getting such a machine myself, but I'm far more than a dollar short of it. :-(
>Think other companies might try appealing to the more technically advanced?
Actually, being technically advanced has nothing to do with it. You'll find more programs *and* drivers work with Linux than with Windows Vista. *And* you're not paying extra money for WGA copies of an OS, either.
Many people felt very ripped off by WGA in 2007, BTW. Hundreds of certified Vista users were infuriated when a WGA server crashed, and the user's computers reported their legal copy as "not legitimate" and the OS refused to run. Source is Wikipedia.
- Tricob.
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3. Anyone remember Game.Com? it was a toy/handheld video game system that was pretty ahead of its time. It featured things like a touch screen, features like a memo pad and address book, and even internet access(at a blazing 14.4kb/s)! Now seriously, how dull is the Nintendo DS when the Game.Com came up with so much of the same functions 8 or 9 years before! HA!
1. What do you think of Sears selling Mirus PCs with a Linux OS installed? Think other companies might try appealing to the more technically advanced? (for more info on Mirus goto Sears.com and search 00373907000, $299 supposedly with a $100 rebate inside the box, so $199 for a not totally horrible PC, does having a Windows OS preinstalled jack prices up?).
1. What do you think of Sears selling Mirus PCs with a Linux OS installed? Think other companies might try appealing to the more technically advanced? (for more info on Mirus goto Sears.com and search 00373907000, $299 supposedly with a $100 rebate inside the box, so $199 for a not totally horrible PC, does having a Windows OS preinstalled jack prices up?).