[CS-FSLUG] Chinese Halloween with Intel

[Don Parris]

On 11/6/05, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's cool about this though, is that they're offering an alternative
> > to Msft Windows.  It might be best if they offered both, albeit at the
> > respective prices.  Even so, the point is that, if Intel can do it
> > there, they should be able to do it here as well.
>
> Intel doesn't really sell to end users here in North America AFAIK -
> at least not in terms of complete systems (although they do sell CPUs,
> motherboards, etc.).  Thus I'm not really sure that the comparison is
> valid.  Are you sure that it's Intel selling those systems, or could
> it be some 3rd party making and selling the complete systems and then
> emphasizing the Intel bits in their marketing?
>
> David
>
> _______________________________________________

Well, if you read the article, you'll see photos showing Intel as the
big advertiser of these computers.  The document the article describes
allegedly came from Intel's Intranet.  It may not be a valid
comparison, but it would seem that someone is making the cases for
their chips/mobos.  Of course, Intel's document may not have portrayed
any of that.  I haven't seen the original document, so don't have the
full details about that.  The article has been re-written, with a
slightly different slant, and titled "Intel Linux vs Microsoft" or
something like that.

Don
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