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In Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900

Posted by timothy on from the money-changes-everything dept.

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."

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  1. How to be a true nigga by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you live in the ghetto and there's a lot of crime and you're poor, just keep having sex without birth control! That's right, if you thought birth control was expensive, just wait until you pop out 3-5 kids that you know damned well you can't afford! But that's okay, you can always go on welfare, that way you can have the government use force-or-the-threat-of-force (confiscatory taxes) to take someone else's money away and give it to you to support what you knew you could not afford. Isn't that wonderful! And if most people who do this happen to be black, don't you dare point this out, because why that might harm their self-esteem and OH NO we can't have that! If you then blame Whitey for your lot in life and for the fact that you refuse to make better choices, then and only then are you a TRUE NIGGA.

    1. Re:How to be a true nigga by sm62704 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Go ahead and mod me down for responding to this offtopic troll. I deserve it for biting. In fact I'm modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.

      If you live in the ghetto and there's a lot of crime and you're poor, just keep having sex without birth control!

      I live very near the ghetto and there's a lot of crime, but I'm middle class, you elitist piece of shit.

      That's right, if you thought birth control was expensive, just wait until you pop out 3-5 kids that you know damned well you can't afford!

      I was married ten years before I realized that there's no such thing as being able to afford kids. I now wish I'd had them when I was 25 instead of 35.

      But that's okay, you can always go on welfare

      No you can't; not in the US anyway. In case you've been asleep for over a decade, in 1996 Congress passed and Clinton signed welfare reform into law. Ir abolished the entitlemen AFDC, welfare with the goal of subsidising families and replaced it with TANF, which has the goal of getting poor people into the workforce and has a two year limit on benefits, five years lifetime. There is no longer welfare in America, Bubba. Tell your lord and savior Rush Limbaugh, would you?

      And if most people who do this happen to be black, don't you dare point this out

      Actually, most people who were on AFDC were as white as me, and I have hazel eyes, you stupid racist dumbass.

      Go troll a non-tech forum with your stupidity. Judging from the troll you used, I suggest this one. Hiint: I've never been to that site.

      -mcgrew

      ps: FOAD.

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  2. Bills Would Reduce Federal Control of Marijuana by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Bills Would Reduce Federal Control of Marijuana

    http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2008/05/08/bills-would-reduce-federal-control-of-marijuana.htm
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.5843:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.5842:

    Contact everyone you know, this is the chance to get Marijuana DROPPED from being Schedule I

    Please mod this up, this is historic!

  3. Re:It's like you said. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Erris (531066), gnutoo (1154137), inTheLoo (1255256), Mactrope (1256892), twitter (104583), willeyhill (1277478)

    I'm still finding some from time to time. Can't believe he subscribed to slashdot for 2-3 of those... What this guy's life looking like, I have no idea.

  4. Ask slashdot by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Red herring. This isn't about us, it's about Microsoft buying market share

    If a straw man is trolling for red herring, what bait does he use?

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    1. Re:Ask slashdot by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Twitter?

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    2. Re:Ask slashdot by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      flamebait?

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  5. Re:Forget the cost of production by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vista had drivers for ever piece of hardware for the DG33TL system I just built. Linux - not so much.

  6. Re:12 GB HDD Vs 20 GB HDD by FragHARD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't NASA switch to windows ME in 2007?

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  7. Re:12 GB HDD Vs 20 GB HDD by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They won't notice until they try to get the latest American Idol songs from the iTunes store. Expect the complaints to start rolling in after that. ;)

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