Acer laptops with Ubuntu Linux available now
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| I think this is a temporary offer only, and I don't have many more details
| than what is in the product page, but it looks like Acer is making a limited
| laptop series available now with Ubuntu Linux pre-loaded.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/4387
Lenovo Offers ThinkPad Notebooks Pre-installed with SUSE Linux
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| Lenovo will release ThinkPad T61 with SLED 10 Service Pack 1 notebook. It
| will be powered by SantaRosa mobile platform and feature 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo
| T7250 CPU, 1GB DDR2 RAM, GMA X3100 graphics, 80GB HDD, Combo Drive and 14.1"
| WXGA screen.
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http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/detail.php?id=4194
Related:
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
Acer revises down this year's revenue growth projection
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| Acer Inc yesterday revised downward its revenue growth to less than 40
| percent, citing a weaker-than-expected impact from the release of
| Microsoft's Vista operating system.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2007/06/15/2003365394
Now get a laptop for just Rs 20k!
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| Windows fanatics or those used to the MS operating system, however may be
| disappointed as it runs on a Linux operating system.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/07acer.htm
Acer Aspire 3680 Series with Linux OS in India Only $400
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| The good part is that it is a full laptop and even its wireless
| network works well.
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http://laptopcom.blogspot.com/2007/06/acer-aspire-3680-series-with-linux-os.html
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