On 1 May 2020 12:57:04 CEST, Mark Pearson <mpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Markus, > >> From: Markus Larsson <qrsbrwn@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2020 3:24 AM >> >> Hi Mark >> >> I have a question regarding the hardware lineup. The 3 machines mentioned >> are very fine machines but for many usages they are definitely overkill and a >> tad bit pricey. >> Will there be more modest machines supported down the line? >> By modest I mean decent machines with good screen (minimum FHD) in the >> 1000€ to 1500€ price range. >> >Our focus has been on the platforms that business customers want so I agree - >the more modest machines are missing. We do have other platforms that we >support linux on but that aren't part of this initial Fedora program and hopefully >it becomes a no-brainer to add those as well in the future. > >We have been expanding our Linux portfolio every year - this year we're doing >full configuration on the workstations which is a big step (caveat for WWAN...). >If the trend continues then logically we should be adding Ideapads - but we're not >there yet. I think the web sales will be useful for showing there is customer demand >outside of business use and I'm genuinely fascinated to see how sales go (fingers >and legs crossed). > >So - I can't give you an answer, because I genuinely don't know myself, but my >hope and expectation is we'll get there....which is horribly vague. Sorry! > >Mark Well, I'm happy with that answer. I rather have you say where things will go is unclear than have some cookie cutter marketing answer. This answer helps me figure out where this is hopefully going and how much to hope for it to happen. While I'm fine with spending 2500€ of company money on a work machine, I'm rather hesitant to spend that kind of money on laptops for the kids :) Br M _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
