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Re: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?
- From: "Matt Darnell" <mdarnell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Feb 10 01:34:00 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > I can only come up with two reasons.
> > 1.Create an image, make it seem more than just software. Create a
> > dependancy on Cobalt.
> > 2.They had the money and thought they could mass produce enough to make
it
> > worth their while.
>
> We would pay the same amount of money only for their software/gui. But we
> will not spend any cent on their crap hardware.
I really like the inteface. It was put together well. I wonder if they
could port it to white box hardware. I guess we'd still be in a pickle for
updates.
-M