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Re: Linux really catching on

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____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 17 September 2008 21:09 : \____

> I went to Circuit City up in Hanover NJ, yesterday, in hopes of
> picking up one of those Acer Aspire Linux mini-laptops.  It seems that
> the entire state of New Jersey was sold out, all stores.  There was
> one store that had a display unit.
> 
> Not bad considering that they had about 30 of them in each store 2
> weeks ago.
> 
> And no mark-downs either.  They got full retail price for all of the
> machines.
> 
> They couldn't even back-order it, because Acer can't keep up with the
> demand.
> 
> Not a bad start.

Intel recently reported Atom shortages. The question is, why don't they fullow
supply/demand rules and produce more Linpus-based Aspires?

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