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prostoalex writes "The low-cost Linux PC market so far dominated by Lindows got a new entrant. According to News.com, Linare plans to sell a $199 no-monitor model with 1GHz VIA CPU, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, KDE, OpenOffice. An extra $50 would get the user upgraded to a 2GHz Athlon. Company is located in beautiful Bellevue, WA, which, as News.com noted, is quite close to another Seattle suburb - Redmond, WA."
you can get your "Linare" upholstered with fine Corinthian leather.
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
Sure, they only support it for twenty four hours after you purchase it.
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
Obviously you haven't been there. It's suburban hell with blonde soccer moms in SUVs.
This sounds really sweet for a low-end computer user. I know a couple of people I'm going to recommend this to. They will probably blow away the OS and use Windows on it, though.
Mmmm.. Donuts
"Linare" sounds much too close to "Windows", and consumers are certain to be confused! Microsoft will have no choice but to litigate to protect their brand.
http://www.linare.com/linos.htm
Is it just me, or did someone in Marketing get mixed up?
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
Are Windows2000 Pro drivers available for all the components?
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
How about just buying a fucking router?
Who cares if she knows the answer, she's hot!
http://www.linare.com/images/prod_left.jpg
That's right kids, even if your two bit operation is barely off the ground a hot receptionsit and a proper slashdoting can get your linux clients banging your door down in an instant!
She doesn't even look human. She looks more like your Real Doll (TM).
cpeterso
Patron: But the sign says your open 24hours. Shop Owner: Not in a row! (Steven Wright)
Yeah, extra silent
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
HEY, take that *back*!!!
THAT'S my WIFE!!!!
Mom says my
Let's hope these folks stay in Bellevue. There seems to be something very bad in the water in Redmond.
-- hgc
Linux: There is no infringing code.
> most Taiwanese companies have better English on their sites.
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That is, until their webmasters started reading
Hot or not she sure looks happy. My guess is she's delighted to part of the OOS movement, and she's anxious to get to work helping Lindow's new clients get the most out of their machines.
Either that or she's happy to be getting boinked by the president of the company.
Huh?
Don't think she's anything special. Unlike the bumf I got from a Czechoslovakian (before they split, though Split is admittedly in former Yugoslavia) PC company a few years ago which not only showed a voluptuous young lady in a tight dress mopping the brow of the engineer who was ensuring that the machines they supplied were top quality but it illustrated the speed options of its CD drives by having a line of young ladies in bikini botoms and T-shirts with the relative speeds written on the T-shirts. The higher the speed the more generously endowed the lady and, of course, the T-shirts were wet.
Very gratuitous, very mystifying as to why they sent them to us in the first place
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>Yeah, but have you ever called the tech support line for a company who does this? I don't know about you, but I can hardly understand what the techie is saying. I mean no offense to the Indian readers of Slashdot, but some of the accents I just can not understand. I think there are a lot of people [in the US] who are the same way.
There are also many people outside of the US, not native English speakers, who have the same problem when calling a support person in or from the US.
Some of the accents are just very difficult to understand!
Right on! my old pc runs win98, linux and bsd just fine. I spend my cash on things like seeking large Rainbow Trout, with a traveler sedge, or choronamid.
Much more rewarding than buying a p4 to find that windows xp sucks and doesn't flyfish worth a damn.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!