"Hadron" <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Asus to release desktop Eee PC on June 3
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| Earlier this year, riding high on the success of its ultra-portable
Eee PC,
| Asus revealed plans to launch a whole family of Eee products
including a
| small form-factor desktop machine dubbed the E-DT.
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http://www.techspot.com/news/30191-asus-to-release-desktop-eee-pc-on-june-3.html
Linux only. Then, there are all those motherboards with Linux on
them. Over ten
million to be sold per year!
<snip including some illiterate craptext>
That's interesting, and it's encouraging. However. I'd buy a laptop
because I cannot integrate a system as nicely as a well done
laptop is made. However, for a desktop, I buy generic parts (and
probably use an old-looking box). Thus I get utility that does not
look valuable, a wise provision these days. And by using generic
parts (and boards and power supply) I don't get tripped up by a
manufacturer's clever vendor lockin provisions. So generalizing
from my own experience, I wonder if Asus can do as well in the
desktop market as in the laptop market?
Anyhow, more Linux from Asus can only be good. I'm about to
make up a new machine, and I'll be looking for an Asus
motherboard.
Titeotwawki -- mha [comp.os.linux.advocacy 2008 May 27]
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