I'd like to see this system, I've never seen a system sold with so little ram it wouldn't boot. That would be a defective machine by any standard..like buying a car with no tires. Perhaps I don't frequent these shops you do so I've never seen it. When anyone with the will can build and sell machines and put windows on it, I suppose anything can happen. This isn't the fault of MS as Tom would have you believe, it's a fault of a bad supplier if this is what took place.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:44 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:22 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Silly question. Selling computers with inadequate RAM is a very old > story. > > In fact, if the retailer were taking the high ground they would not be > > selling Windows. > > If they want to market to the masses, they will sell Windows based > machines. That is still what the masses want, albeit mostly for what > is perceived as being able to save money and/or being able to have > what "everybody else" has. > > I do not know of any new Macs ever sold that had RAM in amounts that > was inadequate to the point of not being able to be booted up. I'm > pretty sure that Macs, even those from twenty years ago, and including > the latest, all had sufficient RAM to be able to run most basic > applications. They might bog down if running multiple apps, but no > one would have felt as if they had been ripped off. > > If selling computers that have insufficient RAM to the point of > being essentially dysfunctional is not all that uncommon, then I do > not think it is an issue related to Macs. If true, then that is > probably an attribute of overseeing the manufacturing of your own > computers that run your own OS. > > Steve > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
