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Asus To Phase Out Sub-10" Eee PCs

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-the-sub-out-of-subnotebook dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Register reports that Asus president Jerry Shen has revealed his company will be phasing out all sub-10" Eee PCs. According to Shen, the 'standard' netbook next year will be a 10" model with a hard drive running XP. Shen also said XP is outselling GNU/Linux on netbooks by a ratio of 7:3. This is somewhat contrary to news from the UK earlier in the year that GNU/Linux units were out of stock while XP machines sat unsold. Are Brits more open-minded than the rest of the world when it comes to choosing an OS?"

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  1. Re:XP outsells Linux, guess why by dotancohen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you say chicken and egg?

    Chicken and leg. That was easy.

    http://dotancohen.com/heb/wallashops.html

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  2. It's about Europe, not just UK by BhaKi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are Brits more open-minded than the rest of the world when it comes to choosing an OS?

    Microsoft's Lock-In strategies have stopped working in Europe, thanks to European Commission's efforts to make Microsoft play by fair rules.

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  3. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me by S-100 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, 500 millihertz. That's two clocks every second. At that rate, but the time Windows boots up, the Mayan calendar will run out of days.

  4. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm a computer programmer and consider myself to be in around the 95%+ percentile of techsavvyness. I can do stuff in the command line, and am not freaked out by it, but a good 75% of my attempts to follow instructions online on complex operations still falls into what I like to call the 'magical incantation' method of making things work

    You may think you're in the 95th percentile, but I have some bad news for you...

    you've just provided a long list of reasons why you are most definitely NOT

  5. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Funny

    And just so we don't get into some sort of infinite recursion here, no, I don't have any evidence newer than five minutes. I'm sure the instances where Microsoft has been caught have taught them how to be more covert.

    Yaz.

    Or they stopped doing it post anti trust case.

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  6. Re:Well "Works With Linux" is a feature to me by Ihmhi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd call it "mission accomplished."

    So would the office furniture store that keeps selling replacement chairs to Microsoft.

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