Hi,
A collegue of mine on the ILUG Bom list alerted me to this thread. I am working with eSys in Singapore, and am "responsible" for the OS you see.
The ePC range was launched in Oct 2002, and has undergone changes in positioning. At that time, as Prakash said, we were working with Via in producing a low-cost PC. That was the product brief my team had, and that is what we delivered. The idea was to reduce cost, reduce cost, reduce cost.
As prices for components fell, and as we increased our volumes, it became easier to stay under the 10k barrier, but also provide some performance. The machines you see advertised are our "3rd generation", and feature more RAM and faster CPUs. We have convinced Intel that India has volume, and they have supported us with lower pricing.
All hardware is Linux compatible, and we bundle a Debian-based internally-developed OS. It is Debian-based, so you can modify sources.list, apt-get, and overwrite our Logo ;-) It is Linux-based, so you can pop in a Mandrake, or PCQ9.0, and know that it will work. For those who are on the wrong list, yes, we also supply Windows drivers.
Where can you buy this from? Your first contact should be Sunil Gera: +91 22 33915154. I do not think we are doing direct sales in India (we sell the ePC over the net in Austria, UK, and US; see
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3...
where we bundle Mandrake). You may need to contact a Dealer for the actual delivery.
Please ask me any other technical questions, for discounts, ask Sunil.
Regards,
-- Sanjeev
Hi all,
I checked with a local dealer who is authorised dealer (routed here through Sunil). The PC is indeed a Pentium Celeron 1.7 GHz/128MB/40GB, sans speakers/monitor.
The price of bare bone PC is Rs.9950. The taxes come up to around Rs.1500 and <b>surprisingly the warrenty is charged Rs 2500 extra.</b> I was expecting the warrenty included, atleast a carry in warrenty.
I would certainly like to know what would happen if any component goes bad or fails. would I be able to get it serviced from the ceoncerned company or eSys if its under 1 year period offerred by the company. or instead do I have to go out and repair/buy it on my own?
If I have to do everything on my own, I would be better buying components myself and get the warrenty advantage. Offcourse it would be a bit more pricy, but then I can choose my own optimised components.
The machine configuration is fine as long as the target population is concerned. This is a decent entry level pc in terms of performance. Those who want mahcine for day to day, less performance intensive work can surely go ahead for eSys.
Thanks and Regards, Kiran Ghag Web Page: http://kiran7.freeservers.com
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» -----Original Message----- » From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in » [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of Sanjeev "Ghane" » Gupta » Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:12 PM » To: ILUG BOM » Cc: sunilgera@esysmail.com » Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL] Re: eSys PCs under 10K » » » Hi, » » A collegue of mine on the ILUG Bom list alerted me to this thread. I » am working with eSys in Singapore, and am "responsible" for the OS you » see. » » The ePC range was launched in Oct 2002, and has undergone changes in » positioning. At that time, as Prakash said, we were working with Via » in producing a low-cost PC. That was the product brief my team had, » and that is what we delivered. The idea was to reduce cost, reduce » cost, reduce cost. » » As prices for components fell, and as we increased our volumes, it » became easier to stay under the 10k barrier, but also provide some » performance. The machines you see advertised are our "3rd » generation", and feature more RAM and faster CPUs. We have convinced » Intel that India has volume, and they have supported us with lower » pricing. » » All hardware is Linux compatible, and we bundle a Debian-based » internally-developed OS. It is Debian-based, so you can modify » sources.list, apt-get, and overwrite our Logo ;-) It is Linux-based, » so you can pop in a Mandrake, or PCQ9.0, and know that it will work. » For those who are on the wrong list, yes, we also supply Windows » drivers. » » Where can you buy this from? Your first contact should be Sunil Gera: » +91 22 33915154. I do not think we are doing direct sales in India » (we sell the ePC over the net in Austria, UK, and US; see
On Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:53 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], K i r @ n G h a g kiran.ghag@patni.com wrote:
The price of bare bone PC is Rs.9950. The taxes come up to around Rs.1500 and <b>surprisingly the warrenty is charged Rs 2500 extra.</b> I was expecting the warrenty included, atleast a carry in warrenty.
I will get back to you on this. My understanding is that there is no extra charge on carry-in warranty, at all. The extra is for on-site, although I may be wrong. Let me ask the Product Manager in Delhi and revert.
-- Sanjeev
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Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta