Top 5 Sub-$300 Laptops Compared
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| Whether you’re looking for a child’s laptop, or just want a cheap piece of
| hardware to play with, the sub-$300 laptop category has a lot to offer. With
| a field full of open source plaforms and rugged designs, you’re sure to find
| something you’ll like. Here we’ll take a look at 5 of the best.
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http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2008/top-5-sub-300-laptops-compared/
Sony leery of the Asus Eee PC?
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| At Sony's annual Open House event, Sony's IT product division senior vice
| president Mike Abary said if the Asus Eee PC starts to do well, it could
| potentially shift the entire notebook industry into a race to the bottom.
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| If mainstream PC buyers start to find their needs met by a lightweight,
| simply featured, inexpensive portable, it's likely to impel all of the major
| players in the industry to pile on by lowering their prices.
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http://asuseeehacks.blogspot.com/2008/02/sony-leery-of-asus-eee-pc.html
Related:
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
Small Linux Roundup
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| I was really blown away. Who knew you could fit so much in an old machine?
| Like DSL it had everything you need. But in addition everything worked out of
| the box, and what was really neat is SeaMonkey came with Flash9 installed. I
| could watch YouTube and even DVD’s (although some I tried didn’t work.)
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| I ended up sticking with Puppy on a laptop install. Before I installed I used
| Puppy and the mount tool to copy all the existing files off the computer.
| These I burned onto a DVD and gave back to it’s owner. I then installed to
| hard drive and after a bit of tweaking it was a brand new computer. I could
| play music and even Super Nintendo games after I found the .pup file online.
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http://www.wmtoolbox.com/tools/small-linux-roundup/
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