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OSNews Reviews Two Linux Laptops

Linare Sub-$500 Notebook Review

“When I read the article on Slashdot & OSNews that Linare
was putting out a sub-$500 notebook, I immediately jumped on the
deal. I purchased a laptop directly from Linare in early February.
Their site stated that I would receive the laptop in 2-4 weeks. I
waited in anticipation.

“After the third week and no information received I decided to
e-mail Linare and find out when I would be contacted, and more
importantly when I would receive my laptop…”

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LinuxCertified LC2210D Laptop Review

“We got in a new loaner from LinuxCertified.com, the brand new
LC2210D model: a Centrino 1.80 GHz CPU, 512 MBs of RAM, Intel
Extreme gfx card, 40 GB drive and a 14” XGA TFT screen. The laptop
comes with the latest Ubuntu installed and sells for $1249. Read
more for our review.

“The laptop also sports a firewire port, a pcmcia port, an
SD/MMC reader, a combo drive, 2 usb ports, modem, wifi, ethernet,
integrated mic, mic-in and headphones-out audio jacks. The build of
the laptop is solid and it has pretty good looks too…”

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Story

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