$199 Linux PC Now Available at Sears.com
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| As the market for Linux desktop and laptop personal computers continues
| to grow and develop, "low-end" or "value-priced" PCs are one segment where
| desktop Linux continues to gain traction with hobbyists, enthusiasts and
| the general consumer interested in trying Linux for the first time. The
| $199 PC is also the first Linux PC pre-installed with the newly released
| beta CNR Client.
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-17-2008/0004737965&EDATE=
Sears sells $199 Linux PC
http://www.i4u.com/article14093.html
Related:
A sleek introduction of $299 laptops
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| Today, Asus Technology will unveil a $299 version of the Eee PC, a 2-pound
| laptop that stores data on flash memory, not a hard drive, and runs Linux,
| the open-source operating system, rather than Windows or the Mac OS.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/14/BU4QTSTAN.DTL
Cheap Laptops Bad for Vista, Good for Linux
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| The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under
| a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those
| laptops, even though they're sold with Vista, have nothing like enough
| resources to run Vista decently.
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| [...]
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| Total additional cost? About a buck for the burnable DVD for the Linux
| distribution. It's not a matter of "if," it's a matter of when we're going to
| see more Linux-powered laptops.
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| Do the math. Vista doesn't work for today's laptop market. XP and Linux do.
| It's really that simple.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222308,00.asp
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