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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: David Ogg <davidogg@nc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 01:32:48 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
Organization: Road Runner - NC
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In article <tm5c7r80efvu17@corp.supernews.com>, sands@cableone.com 
says...
> but if you use windows a Pc maker can not use ANY OTHER OS
> or they lose their lic. from microsoft that why Gateway owns Amiga
> you do not put out an Amiga computer because they would lose Windows..

Not true, We sell other OS's, give us a call for a quote, and I'll prove 
it.
Microsoft doesn't impose those restrictions on us.

David Ogg (919)468-6365 (919)468-6366 fax (919)468-6367
Registered Microsoft OEM Partner
PC Warehouse
1777 NW Maynard Rd
Cary, NC 27513

Gateway had other motivations for wanting Amiga.

Compaq puts out other OS's, ones that compete squarely with NT/2000!
Dell, IBM offer Linux.
Not to mention SGI offers unix.

Not sure where this rumor started, but I've heard it before.

> Dave R. wrote in message ...
> >On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, James Alexander wrote:
> >
> >> gigahertz processor systems aren't readily available yet.  oh and don't
> >> forget, where I live, retail on windows is $300 by itself.  Are you
> really so
> >> STUPID to believe any vendor will sell you windows and give you the
> hardware
> >> on which to run it for FREE?
> >
> >A vendor, however, will be paying for OEM Windows, not retail.  The OEM
> >version is usually much cheaper, but with stricter licensing (i.e. must be
> >sold with a computer, can't be installed on another PC, etc.).  So, figure
> >US$50-$75 for Windows, maybe even less.

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