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No Linux IdeaPad For Lenovo's US Customers

narramissic writes "When Lenovo's new IdeaPad 'S' series netbooks hit stores in October, U.S. buyers will only be given one option: Windows XP on the IdeaPad S10 (making it not so much a series as a single offering). Meanwhile, people in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the U.K., will be offered both of the company's new IdeaPad netbooks (the S10, which has 10.2-inch screen, and the S9, which has an 8.9-inch screen), and the choice of either Microsoft Windows XP or a Linux OS. Before you start feeling too sorry for yourself, consider the price tag: the S10 will sell for £319 (US$629) in the U.K., but in the U.S. the starting price is $399." Liliputing (a cool site for anyone interested in sub-notebook computing) has posted a few bits on the IdeaPad, including some short videos.

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  1. Re:XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apparently Lenovo consider Americans to be both poor and stupid.

  2. Re:Eat my goatse'd penis! by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    what makes your penis goatse'd? did you stick it up the goatse's shit chute? Or are you going to spread your asshole while a dorky linux fanboi gives you head?

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  3. Re:XP by awrowe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To be fair though, most if not all of that price hike is down to the greedy bloodsucking bastard government which seems to think a country should be run at a profit, with the citizens being the customers, rather than running the essential services the people require and taking no more than what it costs to do so.

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  4. Re:XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid."

    "may be rabid but more likely just a dumb fucking cunt" is more like it.

  5. Re:not linux by x_MeRLiN_x · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What are you talking about?

    Their claim that the ability to rearrange the icons doubles your "fun" and productivity did make me chuckle.