In Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900

KrispyDollars writes "It sounds crazy to say this, but the XP-based version of the Eee PC 900 (the new version with the 8.9" screen) will actually be considerably cheaper than the Linux-based version. At the official launch today, the company told journalists that 'Microsoft has been a longstanding supporter of Asus' to explain the price discrepancy. And — get this — only the XP-based machine will be sold at mass-market retailers, while the Linux-based model will be consigned to computer stores."

Comments

Re:Awesome! That means a less-expensive Linux mode

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Very well, I could buy a 60GB External hard drive for $50. Unless you want to tell me these laptops don't come with USB ports. In which case I would call them over glorified paperweights."

Or we might tell you that you can buy all of the External Hard Drives you want, and it would have quite literally nothing to do with this discussion. You clearly don't know the many differences between internal bootable FLASH storage and an external USB device, FLASH or otherwise. For example, data throughput is orders of magnitude greater for the former over the latter. There are many others. Just accept that you made a serious error and either educate yourself so you won't make it again, or stop posting ignorant comments and go on with your life. Seriously.

Re:12 GB HDD Vs 20 GB HDD

[drsmithy]

If "the people" are clamouring for Linux machines, as Slashbots would have us believe, then why would vendors care about relatively high Windows OEM prices when their Linux machines would be marching out the door in droves ?

Re:How to be a true nigga

[sm62704]

Sure there is. It's called the Earned Income Tax Credit

Key words are "earned income". You have to have a job to get it, and what's more, a job that pays starvation wages. It isn't the poor person getting this welfare, it's the company that he generates wealth for that gets the government largess. Raise the minimum wage so that a wage earner can afford the cost of living and nobody will get the earned income tax credit.

But I'm sure a right wing facist like yourself doesn't belive in the minimum wage at all, that rules and regulations are for the poor while the rich and the corporations they run should be left alone by the government.

Corporate welfare is indeed still around, but welfare for poor people is not.

more children = more tax credit

That's the Child Care credit, and it's there so that widow White can afford babysitters for her two kids so she can go to work for starvation wages.

The question is not whether there are more white people who received welfare than black people who received welfare.

And I already gave you your answer, Mr. Limbaugh. More white people were on AFDC than all other races combined.