Pricing would be another issue, if you have to buy machines with Windows on them, and then install them, then it won't be worth anything. If you can find a way to buy them without having to pay for the MS liscense, then you might be able to cut people a good deal on a laptop.
All in all, I think that if you can get a good laptop, which works well under linux, and for a decent price, you should be able to make some money. I know I'd at least tell my clients about it, if not buy one myself.
Greg Drake wrote:
I have been pondering the idea of starting a small business installing and selling Linux on laptops. Does anyone have any idea how much business I may get with such a venture? I am keeping watch of this mailing to see what some of the best laptops would be to use.On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:05, Austin Acton wrote:I have a Compaq Armada 3500 (PII-300). Everything on it works perfectly (USB, PCMCIA modem, PCMCIA ethernet, pointer, sound, APM, etc), except the video card. It's a Chips and Technologies 96000 (2MB), and it stinks. It was insanely slow with XFree 3 and it doesn't work at all with XFree 4. Austin
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