OMG FIRST Pre-installed Linux Laptop i have seen!

[Devil_666]

In the Sun Paper today for sale at Morrisons for £199

Cant remember the Spec of the laptop now, it was an Acer and comes with 1 Gig of RAM and 16 GB Hard Drive, cant remember the other specs!

[darrelljon]

probably a netbook with a titchy screen.

[Tripredacus]

The Asus EEE PCs come with Linux built in.

[CoffeeFiend]

As Tripredacus said, it's a Eee PC.

A lot of such netbooks have Linux installed indeed, because the specs are quite low (tiny low-resolution LCD, a slow-ish Atom CPU or a 900MHz Celeron, a measly 1GB of RAM, a tiny flash drive instead of a hard disk -- much like a PC that's like 8 years old. no optical drive even) and not so well suited to run a modern version of Windows, and when you're trying to cut every corner (anything to save a penny) to offer them for dirt cheap, then a Windows license might not be too attractive.

A lot of people who buy them seemingly either end up putting Windows on them, or returning them (the return rates of netbooks with Linux is 4x higher than those running Windows). Depends what you're looking for I guess.

Edited October 13, 2008 by crahak

[puntoMX]

Cant remember the Spec of the laptop now, it was an Acer and comes with 1 Gig of RAM and 16 GB Hard Drive, cant remember the other specs!

As Tripredacus said, it's a Eee PC.

It´s the Acer Aspire One indeed. The older version had 512MB and 8GB, I´m installing Windows vista Starter on them (not sold in every country).

[CoffeeFiend]

It´s the Acer Aspire One indeed.

Woops. I missed the "Acer" part. Seemingly Morrisons had Eee PCs on for £199 before too (found a forum using google, where someone said he saw that in the newspaper...)

So it's a single core Intel Atom N270 with 1GB of RAM. Same thing almost...

[Idontwantspam]

Dell has had laptops available with Linux for quite a while now...

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global....;l=en&s=biz