Dell's doing it. Acer's kind of, sort of doing it. Now Lenovo has announced that they too will begin selling laptop computers pre-loaded with Linux. While Dell has gone with the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Lenovo plans to offer Linux software provided by Novell (we assume that means Suse).It's not clear which Lenovo laptop models will get the Linux treatment. But they should be on sale during the 4th quarter of 2007, and will be available to business and home users.
Pretty soon we're going to stop reporting every time a mass market computer manufacturer announces they'll
be distributing Linux PCs, because it's starting to get commonplace. Well, unless you count the possible scammers over at Medison that claim they'll be releasing a Linux-based PC for $150 using commonly available computer parts. That's not exactly commonplace. But it also looks like a case of too good to be true. We all know Microsoft Windows costs a lot of money, but picking up a fully functional PC for less than the price of Microsoft's operating system? That's probably just too good to be true.
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8-06-2007 @ 3:53PM
Todd said...
( Future Download Squad post )
December 30, 2008
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HP ships last laptop with a Windows Operating system pre-installed!
Well we've come a long way, baby! Tonight at midnight, HP will ship the last known laptop computer to have a Microsoft operating system pre-installed. If you'll remember back in late 2006 when we first reported that Dell was going to start selling business laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed, most thought of it passing phase.
But here we are, and the last company still selling Windows operating systems will stop tonight. Every computer hardware company now on sells only Linux distros pre-installed.
Sad to see Microsoft go the way of the dodo bird, but 2008 saw the retirement of Bill Gates, then the sudden shock of Steve Ballmer being committed to a mental institution, and the merger of Google, Yahoo, Sun and Apple into a single market dominating company.
Oh well, times change, here's to the last Windows computer to ever be sold. We'll miss you Blue Screen of Death!
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8-06-2007 @ 3:56PM
David Chartier said...
If a merger of Google, Yahoo!, Sun and Apple would require me to type an exclamation point after each of those company's names when writing about them, count me out.
Google!, Sun!, Yahoo!, Apple!
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