HP/Compaq Presario and Linux

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:36:29PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 7:55am, gaf at blu.org wrote:
> > AFAIK, the DeskPro line was killed several years ago.
> 
>   FWIW, Dell and Gateway do this, too, to different extends, and I imagine
> other vendors do, too.  With Dell, you've got two lines of desktops: The
> Dimension and the OptiPlex.  The hardware is nearly identical; it's the
> software configuration, service and support, and lifecycle management that
> vary.  And that's a big difference if you've got a fleet of tens or hundreds
> of PCs to manage.

From the consumer standpoint, I can attest to this: my boss was recently 
buying a new laptop, and had the choice in front of him to choose two 
mostly identical laptops. When he asked the difference, this was 
basically their answer: "One is the top of the line. The other isn't." 
Longer warrantys, higher classes of support, more "premium" parts... 
pretty much all of it was in intangibles.

Of course, most Linux users probably don't have use for most of those 
intangibles anyway, so I'd have just saved myself some money, but my 
boss still, sadly, runs Windows. ;)

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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