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Linux Laptop from R Cubed Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-the-merrier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge (Also owned by VA) has a short writeup on R Cubed's latest laptop, the LS1250-L Linux laptop. From the article: 'My test machine came with Fedora Core 5, the GNOME desktop, OpenOffice.org 2.0, the Firefox browser, and Evolution mail client. The lineup also includes the normal assortment of multimedia players, administration tools, and games. If you prefer, you can choose SUSE 10.1, various flavors of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and even Microsoft Windows XP.'"

6 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. Dell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dell must be quaking in its boots. And Apple... well let's just say Mr. Jobs should get acquainted with his local welfare office.

  2. Re:A bit expensive for a Linux laptop? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh, but you're forgetting the "carbon fiber" {???) case.

    And the special X windows drivers.

    And the fact that it can run "continously for up to 7.9 hours".

    Lots of value added things in here. But does it run Vista?

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  3. Wow by yet+another+fancy+ni · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firefox! I must have this machine...

  4. Re:If only others would follow by lightyear4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did ask, several different reps. It's so widely publicized at Dell, that only one our of four even knew linux was an OS. The others believed windows was the only operating system.

  5. Re:Same laptop for less by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jesus is my OS, but he panicked on boot up so I reformated him and installed Windows.

    KFG

  6. Hot Item? by thunderpaws · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it explode as well as a Dell?