Hi all. On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 08:41 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >> Dave Miner wrote: > >> > >>> I got a picture of it while I was there. > >>> > >>> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_at_ces Sweet! Thanks for posting that Dave. The funny thing is that just yesterday I was 'window shopping' on the Toshiba site in anticipation of their OpenSolaris offerings and that was the very machine I picked out (due to monitor size, weight, and the 128GB solid-state drive). Still working out how to justify the nearly $3K price tag* to myself given that I currently have a perfectly good (and recently upgraded) Satellite. But I'm actively working at solving this problem. ;-) * The price associated with the Windows version I saw. I think my biggest motivator, boils down to something Garrett said: > Notably, Sun isn't the one selling the laptop hardware. What's notable > about the release, is that Toshiba is now "selling" OpenSolaris. > > It would be nice to get Dell to do the same, sure. And it would be nice > to get all of the laptop vendors to follow suit. But Toshiba is the > first company to do so, and they deserve (IMO) our support in thanks of > their support. Exactly. And I can't think of a better way to say "thanks" to a company and show my support for their decision than buying their product(s). :-) I'm admittedly just one consumer, but I'm hoping purchasing turns out to be somewhat like voting: Each sale counts. <shrug> It would be cool were Toshiba to offer a "trade-up" program. I've seen other laptop vendors do that. If one could offset the price by "trading up," that would be sweeter still. Take care. --Joanie
