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$150 Linux Laptop for the Masses
Xemu writes "Inspired by Negroponte's laptop for children, the Swedish company Medison is now taking orders for their US$150 Linux laptop, the Medison Celebrity. The laptop is a 1.5 GHz Celeron M 370 with 14 inch screen, wireless network and it comes with Fedora Red Hat pre-installed." Update 2035 GMT by SM: As many readers have pointed out, the more you dig into the details of this company the more fishy it starts to seem. I would suggest any potential buyers be wary on this one.
That's nothing special.
On my laptop, I am running Fedora Red Hat CentOS.
But will it run Li- Oh. Right. Never mind.
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Among all available distributions, the company has installed Fedora, which by default does not come with installations of mplayer and other music software and libraries. This is a truly educational laptop where children will have to learn to use Linux and install software just to reach the end goal of watching porn. Finally, someone is not thinking of but thinking for the children.
Fedora Red Hat
Oh that's too cute! Is that a new Linux distro or something?
I use "OpenSolaris Sun" on my laptop.
At least you didn't say "But does it run Windows?". You'd never get out of this forum alive.
That's tough to swallow.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Battery life is infinite on the Madison VaporTop! Just send us 150$ USD in unmarked bills, actually, mark the bills with your SSN, and send them to our PO Box in China.
"If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind."
So I guess IKEA finally got into computer business:)
I don't think half of a DVD constitutes a laptop.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
Sounds like the perfect new product for this company...
http://www.anuslaptops.com/
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its times like these we need the image-zooming software from CSI:whereever
That, that really grinds my gears!
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
But having the extra 32 bits would take you a step closer to 1337!
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
I doubt this is a fraud. They accept credit cards, like Visa.
You know it makes sense, a little reminder from jointm1k.
ROOOOAAAAARR!!!
Almost sucked me in .. until I started reading the website of the parent company.
n ner-and-photoshopped company logo, and other quiet achievements such as designing the color iMac.
Mind you thats just my opinion. Please feel free to read all about their other 'achievements', such as the Medison line of designer clothing (which doesnt appear on google anywhere), the awesome words of wisdom of their founder in his own blog, the un-attributed quotes, random photos of capital cities, the slightly-dithered-like-ive-been-put-through-a-sca
I love their accesories page - whats with the link to clk.atdmt.com to download a copy of 'Windows Live Messenger'. WTF ?
Anyway, in Australia, the big mining company BHP used to have a TV ad with the motto:
"BHP - The quiet achiever"
But if half of their un-gogglable claims are valid, then this Medison crowd really have earned that label.
Scam, IMHO.
On the upside, if it wasnt for Medison, I wouldnt have learned that I have a new word in my diminishing vocabulary - "ungooglable".
ungooglable:
A product, or a claim, a thing, or a statement of supposed fact, that when searched for on google, produces zero relevant supporting results, to the extent where serious doubts are then cast upon those same claims or facts. eg: "Johnny made several ungooglable claims about an alleged series of concerts that he supposedly performed with the El Mariachi Trio whilst on his recent holiday 'South of the Border'". Ant. un- . eg "Natalie Portman's naked butt may well be one of the most unungooglable butts never really photographed for real".
I'm posting some excerpts from their FAQ:
Q: Why is the laptop much cheaper than other laptops?
A: We see this from a democratic point of view where we believe everyone should be able to afford to have a laptop.
That's a great explanation of how they managed to reach so low prices. Democracy, people! I'll never buy another communist laptop from DELL.
Q: When can you deliver my laptop?
A: We try to deliver as fast as possible, but the normal time is between 4 and 6 weeks.
Bummer, why the long time? No explanation.
Q: Do you have other products or can I add more memory to this laptop?
A: Yes, we have other models coming up next month and if you want to expand with more memory on your laptop you can go to our 'Accessories' page and buy extra memory.
Support disaster: you can't just buy a laptop and then "buy some memory" as accessorie.
Q: How does Linux work?
A:The Linux version that comes with the laptop is Fedora from RedHat and is not too much different from using Windows or MacOS
Support disaster: you don't tell people Linux runs just like Windows, or you get drowned in calls about "my game CD doesn't install". Apparently they never planned to support the thing (anything).
Q: Is your laptop a quality product?
A: Yes it is, and it comes with 1 year warranty.
Shit, I'm convinced...
That's one amazing virus! Maybe he found another virus that can manufacture laptops from manure?
I suspect the difference in performance will be that the ASUS laptop will be a computer, and the Medison machine will be a sad memory of 150 dollars you once had.
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I suspect that any money you spend on this scam will go towards buying crank and high class prostitutes for the CEO.
The 'Sweden' needle points to 'E'.
Duh.