RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop) > I can hardly believe that this was by accident since everything they > do just shows so obviously what they aim at - ripping you off very > thoroughly. You'd think they'd have learned something from betamax by now. :) -- Michael McIntyr

Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Silvan
> I can hardly believe that this was by accident since everything they > do just shows so obviously what they aim at - ripping you off very > thoroughly. You'd think they'd have learned something from betamax by now. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and

Re: sony vaio desktop

2004-07-20 Thread Steve Vejcik
Thanks for the warnings to everyone who replied-and they were pretty universally warnings. FYI, I decided to steer clear and go for a small custom built machine put together with no os-taint but well documented (linux-compatible) devices. Steve On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:47, Micha Feigin wrote: > On

Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-20 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:59:40AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb Matthias Czapla um 3:28: > > > Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product made by that > > company. They actively try to reduce compatibility and are great > > supporters of Digital-Restriction

Re: sony vaio desktop

2004-07-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Steve Vejcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Folks, > Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps >using) Debian on a SONY Desktop? I'm eyeballing one of their >RS600 series machines but am worried about compatibility with >hardware, especially the "integrated eth

Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb Matthias Czapla um 3:28: > Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product made by that > company. They actively try to reduce compatibility and are great > supporters of Digital-Restrictions-Management junk (e.g. Notebooks > only work with their own expensive RAM

RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-19 Thread Steven Jones
I would agree, Sony are not a nice company to deal with IMHO, and given so much choice of product out there easy to avoid. ;] Steven 8><= > > Avoid them if you care about customer support. Theirs is even worse > then not having any. Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product ma

Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-19 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:47:18AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:01:14AM -0500, Steve Vejcik wrote: > > > > Folks, > > Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps > >using) Debian on a SONY Desktop? I'm eyeballing one of their > >RS600 seri

Re: sony vaio desktop

2004-07-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:01:14AM -0500, Steve Vejcik wrote: > > Folks, > Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps >using) Debian on a SONY Desktop? I'm eyeballing one of their >RS600 series machines but am worried about compatibility with >hardware, especia

RE: sony vaio desktop

2004-07-19 Thread frizzgrig
Steve Vejcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Folks, >     Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps >   using) Debian on a SONY Desktop?  I'm eyeballing one of their >   RS600 series machines but am worried about compatibility with >   hardware, especially the "integrated etherne

sony vaio desktop

2004-07-19 Thread Steve Vejcik
Folks, Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps using) Debian on a SONY Desktop? I'm eyeballing one of their RS600 series machines but am worried about compatibility with hardware, especially the "integrated ethernet" for which no other information can be fou