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PC World has an article this morning, "How Microsoft is Fixing Netbook Prices", Randall C. Kennedy.

Netbooks look great to me - of course I'd love to have a monstrous, throbbing laptop, loaded with everything and a netbook won't do everything I need to do but it looks pretty good for when I leave the house - plenty big enough to do research on, take to meetings and interviews, display pages… Continue

I went looking for a Dell laptop or a netbook with Linux and was totally tweaked to NOT be able to find one: at Walmart, Target, Kmart, Fry's, Radio Shack, wherever, what gives?! Employees at Walmart told me they'd stopped ordering them and that they were only ordering machines with Windoze Vista or XP.

Making or selling only laptops with Microsux on them will neither force nor encourage me to buy them because I can't find what I'm looking for. This isn't like buying breakfast cereal, "oh, hum,… Continue