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  • From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07 AT myway.com>
  • To: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Reflection: BL/Low Ebay Prices.
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:19:15 -0500 (EST)


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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