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To: damniseedemons who wrote (18783)	4/28/1998 5:45:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Sal, >>Norm, how many consumers do you know buying NT Workstation? A few buy NT instead of 95 because they run a powerful app for their business/personal use. My friend needs it for his trading software which is NT only. He also runs Carmageddon alot and browses the web the rest of the time. Does not own a lot of apps, does not need too either. >Just what do you think the profit margin on $700 PC's is for the manufacturer? I think $50 must be a decent cut of it otherwise why not a $650 model instead of $700? >>Wow, by that logic why not a $750 PC? Or a $50 PC. Or hell, why not just make it free if you can install freeware Linux! What is the profit margin on a $700 PC? My guess is that people who want Linux-only will buy a $650 machine over a $700 one on most days. I do not know what logic classes you have had but subtraction is actually a mathematics concept. If A+B=C then B=C-A. Practice it a few times and then we will move to that fixed-costs and economies of scale thing you have been having problems with. >>but I'll go on to note that today's OS does a lot more than just let you run a browser. Nothing more than a well-written device driver and app have been doing since the dawn of computing. If Linux has a Windows Emulator that must mean Linux is at least as powerful as Windows. What is it again that Windows does that Linux cannot? This presents a conundrum which only the Bearded-One or Justin can get us out of. Cheers, Norm