They are indeed in ongoing possession of a giraffe ... #
Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 23:32 GMT
... but also include (wait for it!) Corel Office and other assorted commercial tat, which even on the dodgy "OEM" sites seems to cost a few squid. But that and Vista would probably account for the price premium over a sensible installation of Linux/OpenOffice.
What's the chances of getting refunds under the EULA, driving down to a vaguely sane price for what's probably not too horrendous a bit of hardware?
that the whole point of SCC was that they were Small (10" is bordering on notebook sizes) and cheap (£390 ain't cheap, Spend an extra £7.32 and you could have a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-1OQ Pentium Dual Core T3200 with 120GB HDD 1GB RAM, 15.4" TFT, DVD±RW and Vista Business delivered to your door) Things went wrong the minute that SCC went above the £250 price point. Vista on a netbook? he Atom seems barely powerful enough to run Linux let alone XP. I suppose this is what happens when the beast from Redmond decides it wants a slice of (more like the whole) pie.
Velocity Micro Edge Z30 Midsize Desktop (2.66GHz Intel Core i5 750, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit)
Apple iMac All-In-One Desktop (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, 1TB, DVD+-RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Snow Leopard, 27" LCD)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Pavilion p6210f Mini-Tower Desktop (2.6GHz Athlon II X4 620, 6GB DDR2, 640GB HDD, DVD±RW DL, Windows 7 Home Premium)
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Compaq Presario CQ5210F Mini-Tower Desktop (2.7GHz Athlon 64 X2 215, 3GB DDR2, 500GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows 7 Home Premium)
Apple iMac All-In-One Desktop (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR2, 500GB, DVD+-RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Snow Leopard, 21.5" LCD)
Discount supermarket offers not-so-cheap netbook
David Gosnell
They are indeed in ongoing possession of a giraffe ... #
Posted Wednesday 10th December 2008 23:32 GMT
... but also include (wait for it!) Corel Office and other assorted commercial tat, which even on the dodgy "OEM" sites seems to cost a few squid. But that and Vista would probably account for the price premium over a sensible installation of Linux/OpenOffice.
What's the chances of getting refunds under the EULA, driving down to a vaguely sane price for what's probably not too horrendous a bit of hardware?
Simon Banyard
I thought... #
Posted Monday 22nd December 2008 12:19 GMT
that the whole point of SCC was that they were Small (10" is bordering on notebook sizes) and cheap (£390 ain't cheap, Spend an extra £7.32 and you could have a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300-1OQ Pentium Dual Core T3200 with 120GB HDD 1GB RAM, 15.4" TFT, DVD±RW and Vista Business delivered to your door) Things went wrong the minute that SCC went above the £250 price point. Vista on a netbook? he Atom seems barely powerful enough to run Linux let alone XP. I suppose this is what happens when the beast from Redmond decides it wants a slice of (more like the whole) pie.