Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 24, 2004 @08:15AM from the foot-in-the-door dept.

hqm writes "Maybe this is the real way Windows will be made irrelevant, not by a Linux desktop, but by Linux embedded software. LinuxDevices has an article stating 'NEC is the latest vendor to announce a laptop with a built-in embedded Linux based media player option. The NEC Versa S3000 will use InterVideo's InstantOn technology to enable users to listen to music, watch DVDs, and more without having to wait for Windows to load. Another major laptop vendor, Toshiba, in July launched its Qosmio laptop, which also includes a Linux-based media player environment. NEC will market the S3000 in Hong Kong and China. The laptop also includes InterVideo's popular WinDVD DVD playing software, which is also available for Linux.'"

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Re:Dual boot-like! by Otter · 2004-08-24 08:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Sure, with all that RAM freed up you could also run...sorry, what was your point?

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Re:which player? by Otter · 2004-08-24 08:34 · Score: 2, Funny

If it is, for added entertainment they should redirect all their tech support questions to the ever helpful MPlayer developers.
Actually, it would be even more fun if they did that and they're not using MPlayer...

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