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Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany

Posted by kdawson on from the next-stop-world-domination dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The LinuxTech.net blog points out that Linux notebooks are currently selling quite well on Amazon's list in Germany. The blog includes screenshots showing the Linux Asus and Aspire notebooks in positions 2 and 4, respectively, on that list. These machines are not netbooks, but full notebooks, albeit on the moderate to low side regarding price and performance. That LinuxTech.net blog was dated 23 July 2009, and the Asus machine is still holding second place more than one day later, while the Acer machine slipped to fifth position, despite the volatile nature of Amazon bestseller lists. While these two data points are just snapshots in time, they are consistent with other data showing that Microsoft itself attributes some of its recent weak earnings to surging sales of low-end notebooks, as well as data showing that the Linux-powered and Unix-powered computers topped Amazon's sales charts in all categories for 2007. If there is to ever be a 'year of desktop (or laptop) Linux', it won't happen all at once, but will creep up in ways similar to what we are seeing now."

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  1. Those 2007 Amazon "sales charts" by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    well as data showing that the Linux-powered and Unix-powered computers topped Amazon's sales charts in all categories for 2007

    According to the link that was in the above quote, The Nokia Internet Tablet PC was the best selling computer, the MacBook Pro was the best reviewed computer, the Asus EEE 4G was the most wished for computer, and the MacBook was the most gifted computer.

    Only one of those comes from a sales chart. Furthermore, it probably wasn't the computer sales charts, as Amazon puts the Nokia in the handheld and PDA category. So what we really have here is that a Linux-powered device was tops in a minor category, Macs were the best reviewed and most gifted computers, and a lot of people expressed interest in the EEE.

    That people have to resort to things this weak in order to get something positive about Linux success with consumers says a lot about how little that success is.