[SLL] Linux/64 on a laptop?

[Matt Beland]

Glenn Stone said:
>
> Just sort of poking a toe in the virtual water here...
>
> If you guys knew you could get a 64-bit Linux laptop, preloaded, and with
> good US-based tech support, would you be interested in such an animal?
> The
> recent Slashdot article about the Ubuntu-HP partnership outside the
> Americas
> has some folks thinking...

No. But that has a lot more to do with the "preloaded" aspect than
anything else; I have yet to see a preloaded installation of any operating
system from a major PC manufacturer that didn't find a way to annoy me.
These days, I don't even check; I just do a bare-metal install, regardless
of what I'm installing.

Now, I might be able to convince some clients to look at such an animal.
But smaller clients want gaming performance (they can't afford a "pure
business" computer) and larger clients feel the same way I do about
preloading.

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Matt Beland
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