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Re: [News] Elonex One Launches £99 Linux Laptops in Britain, Expects Very Many Sales

  • Subject: Re: [News] Elonex One Launches £99 Linux Laptops in Britain, Expects Very Many Sales
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:39:19 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> The £99 laptop: how can it be so cheap?

It uses a 300Mhz CPU:

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-simple-linux-umpc-fontastic.html

Plenty for Linux.

Let's see Microsoft shoehorn their Vista Bloatware into /that/!!!

Good comment from the article:

.----
| It's an irony. Software and hardware gets more productive because
| the underlying chips have stopped doubling in speed every couple of
| years. What it means is that, for the first time, a less than
| cutting-edge product is usable.
`----

An more to the point, Linux is becoming more viable to ordinary
consumers than Microsoft's hideously outdated and bloated garbage.

> Linux Has Won, Windows is Gone

Windows is a dinosaur.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
 01:38:59 up 58 days, 23:14,  6 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.13, 0.34

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