Alan Bell wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: >> Anyone else think £390 for a base unit is somewhat expensive??? >> >> Sure, they "build them to order" or whatever but they must be raking it in!! >> >> And the site doesn't say how much memory the things have - let's hope >> it's enough for them to use it as a standard Linux install should they >> decide to do so. >> >> Sean >> >> > good luck to them. Not sure I would base a product on Mint, but the > hardware looks perfectly good (looks a lot like what I am using right > now) and the price is not the price for a bare bones unit but for the > solution including training materials and support (remember it isn't > being sold to self-supporting geeks) it certainly isn't crazy money. If > it is priced right to support a profitable business based on Open Source > that is great. Valerie Singleton on board sorting out publicity is > fantastic. If people say "Linux, oh yes I have heard about that, it is > that computer thingie that doesn't get viruses and is easy to use" then > I am all in favour!
Not all old people are poor. I was on a cruise up the Norwegian coast last year, and sat next to an old(er) woman (than me) who knew nothing about computers but did use them a bit, and was determined to buy an Asus EEEpc (linux). I believed the motivation was an article that had appeared in the daily telegraph before that. The attraction I think was the security. The price will also no doubt include the possibility of a number of phone calls like how do I get my emails? Or how do I get my volume up? I wish them luck With Valerie S on board it will get noticed, and I hope they make a lot of money too! That is the motivator for *businesses*, after all, isn't it? However, the Proprietary Infection is rampant in Age Concern. Also helped by donations in various forms from Microsoft. Some readers here may recall I set up and ran the Age Concern Berkshire Computer centre - ran many thousands of sessions for clients, with the help of a dozen other volunteers. Then I discovered Linux. It soon was obvious to me that a GNU/Linux based system was far more suitable for vulnerable novices than Windows, and I - with much regret - decided I had to resign because I was no longer going to help those vulnerable novices get entangled with Windows, with all its risks and problems for the unwary, going ho,me after their first hands on session talking about shopping on line. Some years later, I am still working away at the Great Wall of Indoctrination, on Age Concern Forums: http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/discuss/categories.cfm?catid=10 :-) -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
