Andrew Cowie wrote:
Chatting with Bdale about this a few months ago, he articulated that
there was a vast difference in HP's laptop line between systems targeted
at the consumer audience, and systems targeted at the corporate market.
Notably, the consumer-targeted systems rapidly change chipsets based on
whatever was forklifted into a large bin in the corner this morning,
whereas the corporate systems were deliberately manufactured with a
defined load-out that would stay the same throughout the support
lifespan of the system.
[Which is impressive if true. There's nothing worse than taking a
machine in for servicing and getting a new motherboard back with
_completely_ different hardware in it]
He also seemed to be saying that their focus with Linux support (ie,
drivers and availability installed at time-of-sale) was [would be?] in
the corporate product set.
This is certainly also true of Dell's support for Linux on their
desktops -- corporate line has certification and support, consumer
line doesn't.
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Glen Turner
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