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Disappointing Hardware, Support for Linare's $500 Laptop

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Too bad... by MoOsEb0y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    on the same vein as a sibling post.. taking apart your laptop is a great way to find out where the ram sockets are. I was taking apart an alienware area 51-m (sager 5630), and took EVERYTHING off the bottom only to realize the ram slots were right beneath the keyboard. Two minutes later I had my mated pair of samsung 256 MB PC2100 SODimms :) Oh well. Horror stories like these make me glad I've ordered a name brand computer. Sure, I'm paying twice as much, but the specs are a lot nicer and it probably weighs half as much :)