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Lenovo IdeaPad S10 To Ship With XP In US; No Linux Option
Posted by Matt Hickey at 2:00 PM on August 7, 2008
If you're interested in the recently announced Lenovo IdeaPad S10, and you're in the US, we hope you like Windows XP. The US market won't get the Linux option the rest of the sub-notebook's customers will, but any self-respecting Linux user would wipe the drive and put their own favourite flavour on, right? [IT World]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
tfosorcim
Posted August 8, 2008 10:02 PM
With all due respect, I think you've got it wrong: any self-respecting Linux user will not be coerced (subjected to extortion?) into giving money to Microsoft, no matter how good the hardware. I'll buy something else. So long, Lenovo.
LJN
Posted 2:52 PM 7/8/08
I prefer options. And I'd prefer the price break that comes with most Linux flavored sub-notebooks.
LJN
DisposableInterloper
Posted 2:35 PM 7/8/08
I'd love to see this in person. So much can be right, but so much can be wrong too.
Gizmodo, once the Lenovo S10 and Dell E come out, you totally have to give us a Battlemodo Royale between those two, the MSI Wind, and Asus's most comparable Eee variant.
DisposableInterloper
gamecrazychris
Posted 2:32 PM 7/8/08
XP just plain works, some people might want linux on it but most people will stick with XP
gamecrazychris
snakepliskin
Posted 2:21 PM 7/8/08
Id have replaced whatever was on there with backtrack anyways.
snakepliskin
Jackson
Posted 4:16 PM 7/8/08
I'd prefer Linux so I can get the price break and install my own totally legit extra copy of Windows lying around....somewhere.....
on the internet.
Jackson
domicius
Posted 9:19 PM 7/8/08
Could it be that only a small amount of U.S. consumers want a Linux option or too many?
domicius
dagwud
Posted 10:19 PM 7/8/08
@domicius: Likely the former. Tech blogs aren't representative samples of the population as a whole.
That's right. We're skewed!
dagwud
m-p{3}
Posted 11:04 PM 7/8/08
That's a bit dissapointing, as I have a Windows XP Pro student edition lying around, and I'll be stuck to pay for an XP Home license I won't use anyway.
m-p{3}
Hvedhrungr
Posted 11:08 PM 7/8/08
@DisposableInterloper: I second the call for a netbook Battlemodo.
Hvedhrungr
aR-Tard
Posted 11:59 PM 7/8/08
@DisposableInterloper:
I also agree with that call for a netbook Battlemodo.
Everytime I think I've found the "right" netbook for me, something else comes along (First EEE, then HP Mininote, then Wind, now this?)
Please, Gizmodo Gods, give me the strength to decide! :P
aR-Tard
Tiago Sartor
Posted 12:56 AM 8/8/08
The Battlemodo would be awesome! Eee, HP's Mini-note, Dell's Mini Inspiron, MSI's Wind and Lenovo's IdeaPad S10.
Those five netbooks deserve some real fights.
Tiago Sartor
vosester
Posted 9:55 PM 7/8/08
@domicius you may have a vary good point there.
I think it is because of the price difference between the US
and other markets at the moment. If you save $30 difference between the Windows and Linux models most buyers will just get the XP model, but here in the UK, £30+ will make a big deference in a sale on the low-end market. I don't know if this says we are unenlightened about OS's or cheap but a lot of European places seem to like like Linux models more.
As for installing Linux any Linux geek can do that, it is the principle of not paying the M$ tax. for something we are not going to use.
vosester
Syliss
Posted 4:00 PM 7/8/08
I own xp keys so I want a cheaper price. I'm not willing to pay more for nothing.
Syliss
Obsidian
Posted 2:55 PM 11/8/08
I'm also interested in the Acer Aspire One. $350 here in Canada and seems like comparable specs makes it very competitively priced.
Obsidian