From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Mar 31 14:33:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF4315225 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15238; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:33:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd015206; Wed Mar 31 15:33:20 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25333; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:33:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903312233.PAA25333@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: emachines To: bradley@softhome.net (Brad Benson) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:33:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000301be7b33$017bed40$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> from "Brad Benson" at Mar 30, 99 11:57:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I use an Emachine at work and love what I've got for the buck. No problems > yet and FreeBSD works fine all but the cheap software modem. As a reseller I > would love to do many of the things you mentioned, but the only thing your > forgetting is that a $400 Emachine comes with windows98 and that for a > reseller to make any money off the machine they would have to raise the > price to do the software install. Suddenly it's a $500 dollar Emachine for > example. What would be nice is if we could talk Emachines into installing it > as an option from the factory, or supplying a software free computer for a > discount. I have a feeling though that there isn't a large enough market YET > for Emachines to do either. I guess you are assuming that they won't give you a discount for no Windows installed... have you asked? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message