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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.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
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.
At least you didn't say "But does it run Windows?". You'd never get out of this forum alive.
Here:
*offers spoonful of sugar*
That should help it go down.
So I guess IKEA finally got into computer business:)
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
I doubt this is a fraud. They accept credit cards, like Visa.
You know it makes sense, a little reminder from jointm1k.
ROOOOAAAAARR!!!
You're doing it wrong...
First salt, then Medison, then lemon. Then you wake up in a shopping cart in a stranger's bathroom with a pounding headache, no memory of last night and no idea where your clothes are.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
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 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.
I suspect that any money you spend on this scam will go towards buying crank and high class prostitutes for the CEO.