Why so expensive?

[Chemical Imbalance]

Ha, ha. Remember poor lil ol' whatshername, who had to drop out of school because she bought a Linux Dell? How on earth could she do that uninentionally but almost no one else can on purpose?

Don't remind me! I had the "rolling eyes" syndrome for a week after hearing that

[mxboy15u]

I know there is little profit in low-end machines but I do wish they offered something more along the lines with a $400-500 laptop. We just word process and surf the internet with our computers so it is very difficult to justify such high end hardware even if the price is excellent in hardware comparison. I am stuck buying low end computers and installing ubuntu myself where things sometimes (stupid internal mic) just will not work...even if overall it works better than a windows machine.

[3Miro]

When I made the comment about the low end machines, I didn't mean that people shouldn't buy "low end" machines, just that I was happy to get the better ones from sys76.

It is hard for a relatively small company to offer the variety of (mostly crappy) choices like Dell does. Dell and others may have occasional discounts to get rid of old inventory, however, sys76 custom builds everything so they have nothing to clean.

Variety is good, just sometimes not feasible.

[jdb]

I know there is little profit in low-end machines but I do wish they offered something more along the lines with a $400-500 laptop. We just word process and surf the internet with our computers so it is very difficult to justify such high end hardware even if the price is excellent in hardware comparison. I am stuck buying low end computers and installing ubuntu myself where things sometimes (stupid internal mic) just will not work...even if overall it works better than a windows machine.

It sounds like 76 is just a few weeks away from releasing a netbook, it might be just the ticket.

jdb

[mxboy15u]

It sounds like 76 is just a few weeks away from releasing a netbook, it might be just the ticket.

jdb

Excellent news! We are in the market for another netbook and will wait to see what they offer.

[TheBuzzSaw]

I just want to comment that the mere fact that system76 machines work with fresh installations of Ubuntu makes them worth the price. Windows is a hassle to find drivers for.

[Murrquan]

I'm not sure I consider my DARU3 Darter Ultra worth the price, because I've had graphics problems with it from day 1. As have many others. ^.^; Here's a thread somebody started about it: LINK

It's a very shiny machine, though. I can't fault the build quality, which is better than any notebook I've owned -- including an IBM Thinkpad. Only the drivers.

[thomasaaron]

It is a little premature to fault the Darter on it's performance under Jaunty.

Jaunty testing is still in process.