After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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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.
> |
> | "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
No, there's a few fanbois out there, you lying Linux COLA zealot idiot!
> 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/
Monopoly sneaking in a price hike. News at 11.
> 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
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> 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
If these links are representative, Acer ain't too happy with getting the
Fista.
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Tux rox!
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