<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>But the direct comparison I'm making isn't it versus a desktop, it's a laptop that is portable for approx. the same price with a lot of extra horsepower, and all the portability. </div>
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<div>I'm not horking down on LinuxMint, a very fine disto(love it), just on the people that chose to price point this product. I believe they choose poorly amongst other products available in the market and their current price point.<BR></div>
<div>Most people will miss the OS savings when the hardware is priced as such.</div>
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<div>Aleric Nielson</div>
<div>Etherport Computers & Solutions</div>
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<DIV id=wmQuoteWrapper>-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Introducing the mintBox<BR>From: Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>><BR>Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 10:37 pm<BR>To: <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><BR><BR>Oh, c'mon, Aleric. How can you question the price of a Linux box? It <BR>has Linux on it, so it's worth anything they ask. How can you put a <BR>price on freedom?<BR><BR>I suppose you could carry it from office to home or wherever you have a <BR>monitor and keyboard set up. It appears to be much more portable than a <BR>desktop PC, and even many laptop PCs.<BR><BR><BR>Chick<BR><BR>On 06/11/2012 09:26 PM, <a href="mailto:contactus@etherportcomputers.com">contactus@etherportcomputers.com</a> wrote:<BR>> <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/257368/meet_the_mintbox_a_new_minipc_with_linux_mint_preinstalled.html#tk.rss_news">http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/257368/meet_the_mintbox_a_new_minipc_with_linux_mint_preinstalled.html#tk.rss_news</a><BR>><BR>> Seems a little expensive with a price starting at $476 for the Basic when you<BR>> can get an entire system like an ASUS K53E-BBR19 **laptop with a 500GB hard<BR>> drive and 4GB of memory running an Intel i5-2450M processor with Windows Home<BR>> Premium for $479.99 from a leading national chainstore.<BR>> I'm expecting that you'd have to add the monitor, mouse, keyboard to the mintBox<BR>> but I could be wrong.<BR>> Where's the savings? Just throwing it out there for discussion.<BR>> Aleric Nielson<BR>> Etherport Computers& Solutions<BR>> <a href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com">www.etherportcomputers.com</a><<a href="http://www.etherportcomputers.com/>">http://www.etherportcomputers.com/></a>;<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>linux-user mailing list<BR><a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><BR><a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>