Re: How workable is Vista?

Joerg wrote:
....
I have yet to find an airport where people in fancy dark suits are not
playing solitaire on their high-faluting $2500+ laptops. So it seems
none is running Vista Business. Or maybe none is running Vista at all ...


You may be closer to the truth than you think on that (noone running
Vista at all, that is).
Until recently, vistasized laptops in the shops here (Sofia, Bulgaria)
used
to cost $100 to $200 more than their similar equivalent coming with
linux.
The cheaper laptops are around 900 to 1000 BGN (1BGN=1DM= apr.
$0.80 ), that
if they are with linux or some free DOS or whatever.
To my bewilderment I saw a few days ago a Toshiba of similar specs
with vista at well below 800 BGN... (760 IIRC). They must be desperate
to make people buy that vista thing, clearly they have a problem.

Dimiter

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