[ltp] Re: IBM to sell its PC business

[Juergen Stuber]

Hi Peter,

Peter Stuge <stuge-linux-thinkpad@cdy.org> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:15:19PM +0100, Winsley von Spee wrote:
>> Sorry for "costiveness is horny" ;). In German it's "Geiz is Geil" you
>> can translate ist with cheap is good but it sound much more kitchy
>> (excuse again when kitchy is wrong at this place again). 
>
> "The cheaper the better" perhaps?

that is too tame and sober, it's more like "being cheapskate is cool".

It's a slogan from Saturn, a big german electronics discounter,
but by those not buying into it it is also used to characterize
the attitude of buying the cheapest crap and then complaining
that it breaks down, doesn't work with Linux, makes noise like
a jet engine, ..., meanwhile driving decent products towards
extinction.

> Here in Sweden university students (at least with one of the major
> technical universities) get a really good deal on the X40, 10000 SEK
> which is like 1200 EUR, possibly a little more.

Teaching assistants might also be able to get it for that price.
Even though it is not advertised, ask for it
(got my T30 that way in France).


Jürgen

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