Re: Notebook

[Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>]

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:17:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Notebook

Not many discounts offered for Apple computers.

The local Apple retail store is the nicest place to buy
and if you insists they can unpack the box and make
certain it works and answer questions.

You can save sales tax if you go through Amazon.

You may quality  as a "federal government employee"
I do because I work for The Aerospace Corporation.
We get only about $100 off.  Students can get a discount
too, but not much  Amazon's tax advantage can be
a larger discount  Emplyee and student discounts are
both through the Apple web site.

Apple has a refurb store on their web sit too.

But the demand for Apple computers is such that no
one offers much of a iscount Same for iPods
About the only good news is that unlike used PCs Used
Apple computers hold their price and resell at close to
the new price. even years later.

--- Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net> wrote:

>
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:48:03 -0600
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Re: Notebook
>
> OK, you all are convincing me.  Do I buy it at the Apple Store or is
> there a discount that works somewhere else?
>
> Tom Droege
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:18:33 -0800 (PST), "Tass Mailing List"
> <tass@mail.alembic.net> said:
> >
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:50:57 -0600
> > From: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
> > To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
> > Subject: Re: Notebook
> >
> > I have to agree. Life is too short to not use an OS that is user-
> > centric, runs an awesome *nix kernel and yet does everything you
> > expect with commercial applications such from M$ Office and Adobe.
> > You can still run X, compile C and fortran and hack the shell.
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> > On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:39:33 -0200
> > > From: Antonio Mario Magalhaes <ammagal@mpcnet.com.br>
> > > To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
> > > Subject: Re: Notebook
> > >
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > If you're going to pay more anyway, get a Mac. Once you use one,
> > > there'll be no turning back. In addition to the Mac's window
> manager,
> > > as Chris says you can run X11 and do your stuff from terminal
> > > windows, if you need to. It'll talk to Windows (argh) and Linux
> > > machines w/o a hitch.
> > >
> > > Or you can get a 'Best Buy' pc and install VMWare in it. You'll
> then
> > > be able to use either OS side by side, w/o rebooting. VMWare is a
> > > virtual machine under which you can install whatever Linux you
> like.
> > > While in Linux, you'll run TCP/IP transparently through your
> Windows
> > > setup and it will use whatever drivers Win uses to talk to
> > > peripherals.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Mario
> > >
> > > On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:24:48 -0600
> > >> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> > >> To: Dirk Terrell <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>
> > >> Cc: tass@tass-survey.org
> > >> Subject: Re: Notebook
> > >>
> > >> Hi Dirk,
> > >>
> > >> Thank you.  I had already found your source among others.
> > >>
> > >> The thing that ticks me off, is that I can go to Best Buy and
> buy a
> > >> notebook with Windows installed that is cheaper than I can find
> a
> > >> notebook on the internet with no OS.  Bill Gates has succeeded
> in
> > >> taxing
> > >> every computer built.  Seems to me that this violates the
> anti-trust
> > >> laws.  So I am ticked.  Very few (relatively - I have found
> dozens)
> > >> will
> > >> sell you a computer without the OS.  These are all more
> expensive, I
> > >> have been looking all day.
> > >>
> > >> Tom Droege
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> --
>   Thomas F. Droege
>   droege@fastmail.fm
>
>
>


Chris Albertson
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