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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.'"

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  1. A bit expensive for a Linux laptop? by gasmonso · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not trolling here, but the price does seem high... almost as if the MS tax in in there somewhere. Is there such thing as a Linux tax? Consider the Dell XPS M1210 for $1200.

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    1. Re:A bit expensive for a Linux laptop? by also-rr · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well this one is 66% of the weight of the Dell (a big deal for me since I travel a lot - in fact being sub 3lb it's amazingly light), by the time I picked out similar specs for both the Dell and the R Cubed the comparison was around $1700 (Dell) vs $2000.

      $300 is easily paid for with the weight reduction and having every bug already worked out so I don't need to spend any time setting it up to run under Linux, in my opinion, but it depends how much you value your time I suppose.

      Anyway it's interesting enough that I'm seriously considering getting one as my next laptop instead of a MacBook Pro as I'm not sure I can face messing around like this to get wireless working again when I could have it all functioning out of the box.

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    2. Re:A bit expensive for a Linux laptop? by spuzzzzzzz · · Score: 3, Informative
      Although if the XP model doesn't cost any more there is also be a MS premium built in, which would be a shame
      On this page, you can see that adding Windows XP to a laptop costs $105.
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  2. Re:Stripped down... it's a terrible laptop. by r_cerq · · Score: 3, Informative

    First, the graphics card isn't ATI or NVidia. It's Intel. That means no native OpenGL support
    Bzzt, wrong! Intel cards do support OpenGL, just not spectacularly. Here I am running XGL on one to prove it...