“A few months ago Linux was flying high, powering one of the
most popular notebooks on the planet in the Asus Eee PC. Then
rumors starting circulating that a Windows XP version was on the
way. And what did Best Buy wind up taking? The XP Edition, and at
the same rock-bottom $399 price. The Penguin reaches for the
noose…“Meanwhile, Wal-Mart pulled the mildly hyped gOS-powered gPC
from its brick-and-mortar superstores and decided to go online-only
for the half-baked CloudBook. And during HP’s
recent media tour for the HP Mini-Note PC, the company glossed over
the lower-cost SuSE Linux version. Why wouldn’t
they when the Vista Basic version costs only $100 more and comes
with a much bigger hard drive…?”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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