workstation marketing - hardware

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 04:42:09PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/22/2014 03:30 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >Out of the Lenovo's, only the Yoga Pro 2 [1] looks visually appealing
> >enough to make Fedora shine, with the downside that another distro
> >"owns" orange (this is from a purely visual point of view, as the
> >Lenovos are nice to work with, but that's another thing). Another issue
> >with that is that it comes with a big windows logo on the front.
> 
> I have the Thinkpad Yoga... very similar look (no orange, smoother chassis)
> but we could edit out the windows button.
> 
> http://www.lenovo.com/images/gallery/1060x596/lenovo-laptop-convertible-thinkpad-yoga-black-laptop-mode-4.jpg
> 
> >On the other hand, the blue Zenbook has the upside that it's blue, and
> >that's a color that is strongly connected with Fedora [2]. I'm not sure
> >if others have been referring to the more common silver model in the
> >thread, but if you can get hold of the blue one, that's a big win,
> >especially if the lightning makes the silver one ending up looking all
> >white.
> 
> If anybody has one in the Boston area...
> >
> >The Samsung Series 9 might also be a good pick [3]
> 
> Ray has one of these so I can get a photo of that too.

Owen Taylor has a Zenbook, which I believe I saw in a meeting we both
attended today.

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