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Disappointing Hardware, Support for Linare's $500 Laptop

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 7, 2005 @08:14AM from the sounds-like-e-machines-of-old dept.

Provataki writes " Remember this great deal about Linare's $500 laptop deal at wal-mart? Probably was too good to be true. Missing shipping dates & bad support take away the excitement."

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Ow by NeoChaosX · 2005-05-07 08:28 · Score: 2, Informative

Wow, does that suck regarding support. Let's just hope some more reliable companies starts producing PCs with Linux reinstalled. A first impression like this may discourage some people from looking into Linux PCs in the future.

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His problem was... by ebrandsberg · 2005-05-07 11:41 · Score: 2, Informative

He didn't buy it from Walmart. Guaranteed they got their orders on time, anybody that ordered direct would be placed behind the bad boy of consumer sales for order fulfillment.