Opinion on Vista and Dapper delays

[Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:03 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> 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? :)

Luckily, modems are becoming less and less of an issue in the places
where people have enough money to pay a bit more for branded laptops.
It's all DSL or cable modems, usually with free wireless
gateways/routers.

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