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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.
First fucking MX POST
Hot grits, Natalie Portman, You Must Be New Here, a crack about not having a girlfriend, blaming the editors, calling for a tag, BSD is dying, goatse, GNAA, YHBT HAND, etc.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
It'll run XP with a ram upgrade to 512MB, but it will never run Vista with that CPU and GPU. That would be like using a compact pickup as the cab of a tractor trailer.
How ya like dat?
Breasts!
Which in the case of the OLPC it seems the problem *has* been solved!
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Yes.
Only old people (in Korea, no less) need a $150 laptop.
And can this laptop show me Natalie Portman and hot grits? Naked?
I'm sure I've missed a few. =)
Don't worry. All redundant moderations will be meta-moderated as unfair. Anything other than a verbatim parroting of a previous post is NOT REDUNDANT!!
Please resist the temptation to post, "It seems their Website is running on one of these"
...I Welcome our New .... Overlords ...But does it run Linux
Also, however off topic, let's also retire
nemesis. Home of an experimental fe code.
Not to worry. Meta-moderators will mark all redundant mods as unfair. It's NOT REDUNDANT unless it's a word-for-word copy of the previous post!!
With the 4-6 week delivery time it certainly sounds like IKEA. Have you ever tried ordering something from their website? It's amazing how incompetent IKEA is at the entire process of fulfilling your order.
Bradley Holt
not all the juice, or he wouldn't be here!
While I agree that this offer looks too good to be true, I routinely order nutrition products from a Korean website which doesn't even have a contact e-mail. No phone. No address. No e-mail. If my friends hadn't been ordering for some time, I would have assumed it was a scam. No credit cards, either -- just bank-to-bank transfer. They guy drop ships everything from the U.S. Amazing prices for Korea, too.
Put identity in the browser.