Why PCs aren't pricey anymore
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| The PC was always a commodity--only dressed up as something more than that.
| Now there is no returning to the days of Fat City. These days you have no
| excuse for getting ripped off. If you pay too much for a computer, it's your
| own fault.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2010-9584_22-6221875.html
Rugged XO far from child's play
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| There are two great lessons to be learned from both the XO PC and the gPC:
| They are the first concrete examples of how inexpensive open-source operating
| systems and applications can be, and they have been made possible by advances
| in low-energy technology.
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| Wrap that up with the geeky utopian dream of putting computers into
| everyone's hands and they become important milestones as well as good
| computers
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071205.wgtkaplab1206/BNStory/PersonalTech/?pageRequested=all
http://tinyurl.com/3aloj8
Microsoft is going back to 2001 and then __strips__ off bit to compete with
Linux of 2007. It's endgame.
Related:
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| It is important to note that this initiative focuses on Microsoft's Windows
| XP, rather than Microsoft's latest OS, Windows Vista. For companies like
| Asus, Linux appears to be a more future-proof option and is much easier to
| modify to fit within the constraints of devices with low hardware overhead.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071205-microsoft-feeling-heat-from-linux-in-budget-flash-pc-market.html
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| Do the math. Vista doesn't work for today's laptop market. XP and Linux do.
| It's really that simple.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222308,00.asp
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
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| If they really believed that Windows was superior to Linux, they wouldn't
| have to bribe people with “marketing help” to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft Government
| Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the
| text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to
| type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
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http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302
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| For-profit companies threatened by the projected $100 price tag set off at a
| sprint to develop their own dirt-cheap machines, plunging Negroponte into
| unexpected competition against well-known brands such as Intel and
| Microsoft's Windows operating system. (Microsoft owns and publishes MSN
| Money.)
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http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/Wny$100LaptopProjectIsUnderSiege.aspx?GT1=10718
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