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["rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>]

Great response. Laptops is a different issue. I am a desktop user and hence 
had ignored Laptop users altogether.

Vijay


 --- On Thu 03/10,  < 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org > wrote:
From:  [mailto: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org]
To: rvijay07 AT myway.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:12:44 +1300
Subject: Re: [BL] Reflection: BL/Low Ebay Prices.

rvijay07 wrote:<br>><br>> With PCs becomming so cheap is there a need for 
<br>> Projects like BL ?<br><br>Cheap to you is not cheap to me.  486 laptops 
with<br>4mb still sell for $50 on our local auction.  My best<br>laptop is 
such a machine (which I upgraded to 12mb by<br>purchasing a $10 used memory 
module).  I use it for<br>Powerpoint-type presentations using BL3 and 
MagicPoint.<br>Is it useful?  Hell yes.  Without it, my submissions <br>to 
the local council would have much less impact.  <br>My opponents have fancy 
Powerpoint laptops for their <br>submissions.  Without my MagicPoint I would 
be at a <br>severe disadvantage (unfortunately elected councillors <br>are 
more impressed by colorful graphics than reasoned <br>analysis).<br><br>BL3 
is useful to me.  I know of no other Linux that<br>would make my laptop so 
useful.  So I make BL3 available<br>to anyone who is in a similar position, 
who has a perfectly <br>good 486 or early Pentium and would like to put a 
useful <br>Linux on 
it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steven<br><br>____________________________<br>http://www.basiclinux.com.ru<br>

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