[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba Laptops Now Available in US!

[James Dickens]

should picked at least one low end laptop for the community members who
aren't rolling in the money, I just bought a HP laptop because it had all
the features I wanted, and even splurging a bit, it was still $500 less than
cheapest toshiba's in that list.


James Dickens
Uadmin.blogspot.com


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Dan Roberts <Dan.Roberts at sun.com> wrote:

> Toshiba has netbooks to 17+ inch systems at all price points, we had to
> choose a few to start with and will grow it from there as well. Lots more
> planned if we can make this successful.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> wrote:
>
>
>>  Price is a little bit expensive, and Fujitsu&Siemens Amilo series
>> (Pa 3553, for example, among others) with AMD/ATI CPU/GPU could be
>> bought cheaper (more than 30%).
>>
>>  You should establish cooperation with F&S. Also, they produce laptops
>> with 15.1" and Toshiba's are 14.1" in screen size.
>>
>>  This business model won't work at the long term.
>>
>> Uros,
>> Belgrade, Serbia
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org
>> [mailto:advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Dan
>> Roberts
>> Sent: April 1, 2009 9:31 PM
>> To: OpenSolaris Advocacy; Open Solaris
>> Subject: [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Toshiba Laptops Now Available in
>> US!
>>
>> Very happy to announce the OpenSolaris Toshiba laptops are now
>> available for purchase in the US via the OpenSolaris.com shop site,
>> see OpenSolaris.com for details.  Availability is in the US only to
>> start, we're targeting adding the UK in about 1 month and we're
>> working hard to expand world-wide later this year once we have the
>> support chains worked out with the Toshiba folks.
>>
>> Links to the product details page, as well as to the specific laptops
>> (Tecra M10 and Portege R600) are available below...
>> http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/
>>
>> I got my R600 last week, and I have to say while there are a few rough
>> edges we're continuing to work out, it's pretty sweet.  Be sure to
>> check out the page above as well for Getting Started info which
>> includes some little gotchas you can easily work around on these an
>> other similar laptops you might be running.
>>
>> Dan
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