Today
we are pleased to announce that we are partnering with Tiger Direct
to bring you guys refurbished PC's with Black Lab Linux. With
refurbished machines most people see them as junk when they are
perfectly capable systems of running a full featured, mature and
advanced Linux desktop system like Black Lab Linux. Now, we have
established some criteria for these systems:
1.
The systems will be no older than 7 years old
2.
The systems will come with a MINIMUM of 2 gb of RAM and an 500 gb
hard drive
3.
The systems will come with a warranty option
4.
The systems will be fully tested before they are shipped
We
will be offering RAM and HDD upgrades for a fee.
We
caught up with Roberto J. Dohnert and we asked him a few questions
regarding these systems.
Q.
What is our green strategy?
A)
To offer systems that come off of lease and systems that may not be
able to keep up with the advances of Microsoft technologies.
Q)
Who is the target audience of these systems?
A)
Consumers who want a low price point introduction to Linux, and for
users like schools, hotels and businesses who may not need a whole
lot of computing power who just need something for consumption of web
apps, kiosks and just everyday office work like using a word
processor for creating documents and they are great multimedia
workstations so you can use these for those kinds of tasks and if a
user wants to create a living room media center. Also startups will
also find the express value of these systems not only because they
are high grade quality systems but also because of the low cost
alternative to proprietary operating systems Black Lab Linux.
Q)
What memory and hard drive upgrades will be available?
A) 4
to 8 gb of RAM and 1 TB Hard Drives
Q)
Will these be sold through Tiger Direct or from us?
A)
Initially they will be sold through the Black Lab Software site. We
are continuing discussions with Tiger Direct on them also reselling
Black Lab Linux on these systems, because of the upcoming holiday
season we are optimistic that by February 2015, you will see Black
Lab Linux on sale in Tiger Direct, available with these systems.
Q)
Will we still continue to offer the higher end consumer and
professional desktop systems?
A)
Yes we will. For those that need more computing power
