could not agree more, is a conspiracy to put the little guy out of business while black box pc's go up $50 in price ( guess, time will tell ) fp
At 01:27 PM 10/7/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poked the stick with: >----- Original Message ----- From: "FORC5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 3:33 PM >Subject: Re: [H] MS gets serious about activation > > >>love that, wait for Vista @ $400 > >That will finish me as an OEM. Microsoft and Intel are widening the gap of the >expense to Dell to build a computer and the rest of us. Asus is already >building lots cheaper motherboards to try to help us compete, all to no avail. >Seldom seen are the Asus true flagship large footprint motherboards. Most have >been replaced by the baby boards. Replacing $100.00 motherboards with $50.00 >motherboards is not going to get the job done when our price on Windows goes >up to double what it is now and Dell still gets Windows at a token. > >I have no plans to purchase Vista and continue building computers. > >Chuck -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Just my opinion (But I'm right).