Niyam, On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > everyone focusses on 'cheap' or 'low-cost' linux laptops, especially netbooks. > what i'm looking for is the opposite: > the top-most, high-end laptop in the market, that ships with gnu/linux > pre-installed, > or has the market forgotten that gnu/linux is also about performance? > i don't care if that laptop's for 50k, or 1L, or more. > it should have the specs, the performance, the uber-cool computing fun. > i could buy one with winxp or macos, and install gnulinux manually, > but which one ships with it?
I see here the market economy at play. If you are a notebook manufacture and you want to sale ultra low cost laptops GNU/Linux is the only choice The Netbooks are generally sold in 250-500 USD (INR 12500-25000). If the manufacture wants to put Windows it has to pay MS Tax from 50-100 USD (INR 2500-5000) that will be anywhere from 25-50 % of the total cost. That's big percentage price point difference in ultra-low cost segment. Recently some Netbook sellers has started shipping netbook with windows XP (near end of life cycle product) with cost difference of INR 3000. Either it is heavily subsidized by MS or vendors are taking hit on their margins to serve a segment who can not do without windows. On the other hand, on the high end laptop segment 1000-3000 USD (50-150K INR) the MS Tax does not push up the price point much higher. Also these are consider premium segment and those users want a device which is "standard" Also the margins for vendor in this segment is much higher. In essence the market is segmented into bargain hunters and luxury users. In 1st segment every $ saved is every $ earned for vendor. In second segment $ does not matter. :) > linuxforyou lurkers: would make a nice article or series, too. > > regards > niyam With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Lily Tomlin - "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
