Star Aussies, Americans Lose Out in Lenovo's Linux Netbook Push
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 7th Aug 2008 17:25 UTC, submitted by SBW
Hardware, Embedded Systems It seems Lenovo is being selective in which markets get Linux on its new range of IdeaPad netbooks. "People in most markets Lenovo serves, including Singapore, China and the UK, will be offered the company's new IdeaPad S10 with either Microsoft Windows XP or a Linux OS, but Australian and US computer buyers will only be offered Windows XP according to Lenovo."
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RE: Comment by satan666
by tomcat on Fri 8th Aug 2008 01:54 UTC in reply to "Comment by satan666"
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/14/asus_linux_eee_901_famine/ Here Lenovo points fingers towards Intel, but I still fail to understand why they scrapped Linux. Why didn't they scrap Windows?


Simple. They listened to market research, which probably found that there is no customer demand for desktop Linux.

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