Linux laptops now for sale at Dell starting at $599

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Originally posted by: zig3695

Originally posted by: Nothinman
OEM licenses can't be transferred.

as long as you dont use that key on that machine and use it only on one pc at a time, microsoft will continue to activate it. they dont care so much about moving keys as they do about people using one key for more then one machine.

It's up to the person your talking to on the phone during the reactivation for that. Their whim, they probably aren't suppose to do that sort of thing but they generally don't care.

 

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as long as you dont use that key on that machine and use it only on one pc at a time, microsoft will continue to activate it. they dont care so much about moving keys as they do about people using one key for more then one machine.

I didn't mean it was impossible, just that it's against the license agreement.

 

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Slightly off-topic, but it doesn't deserve it's own thread.


Asus is releasing a new laptop called Eee. It's the commercial version of the 'Intel Classmate' which is designed to be a direct competitor to the XO laptop (aka OLPC laptop, aka 'The One Hundred Dollar Laptop')

It's low-budget, small formfactor laptop. Presumably it's going to use a Intel ULV proccessor and video chipset, which should provide decent proccessor performance and some limited 3d performance.

512megs of ram.
Various harddrives from 4gig to 16gig. They are solid-state flash drives, no moving parts.
802.11g wireless.
Dual USB ports.
VGA out
Full-sized-ish laptop-style keyboard. Touchpad.

The odd thing about it is the tiny 7 inch widescreen display. Rather large bezel.

But the price and size is what makes it interesting. Round about 9 inches wide and 6 inches deep. Thickness ranges from 2/3rds of a inch to about 1.5. Just under 2 pounds.

Then the price for the base model is going to be around 200-250 dollars.

It'll run some custom Linux thing by default, most of the time. But it's XP compatable for the Windows crowd.