Devil_666 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 In the Sun Paper today for sale at Morrisons for £199Cant 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrelljon Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 probably a netbook with a titchy screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 The Asus EEE PCs come with Linux built in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Dell has had laptops available with Linux for quite a while now... http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global....;l=en&s=biz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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