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- saturn5, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1There are 18 "netbooks" in the 25 best selling laptops on Amazon. Only one is Linux. All of the others are Windows XP. But you still see stories like this and "How To Become a Linux Netbook Power User" that try to make people think that everyone buys them with Linux installed.
"Windows crushing Linux in netbook market:
Contrary to some recent reports, senior managers at Acer and other leading vendors have confirmed that Microsoft Windows XP now dominates the emerging sub-notebook market with more than 90% of new sales. Meanwhile, Linux, which had the netbooks market to itself until April this year, has seen its share of the space eroded to less than 10% in a breath-taking decline."
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22362/53/ - ThantiK, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Once people start offering ARM processors instead of x86 on netbooks I suspect the price will drop even lower. That is barring intel artificially dropping their processor prices for netbooks far lower than the cost of making them.
- maxwillson, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Linux isn't user friendly.


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