Open-PC: From the community, for the community

[Michael Lauzon]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:07, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I saw the Slashdot story about the above:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/01/20/0020246/100-Free-Software-Compatible-PC-Launches
>
> I am unimpressed with the machine, because:
>
> - a 160 GB hard disk in an era when 1 TB drives are under $100 and 1.5
> TB drives are under $130...
> - I love expansion slots, so for anything other than MythTV client
> boxes I have avoided microATX motherboards (which this box has).
> - At $529 (Cdn.) (359 Euros at current exchange rate) you can build a
> FAR better box (how ever you want to measure things) from the clone
> shops at College / Spadina than what these folks are offering.
>
> Bottom line, interesting idea, but part of what turned me from
> Microsoft software was getting more bang for the the buck, not less.
> This box is too small, limited and expensive to be of interest.
>
> Colin McGregor
>

Very off-topic, but did you get my email about the DVD you're freecycling?


-- 
Sincerely,

Michael Lauzon
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists