[Eug-lug] $150 Fedora laptop

[Fred James]

Mr O wrote:

>Celeron M runs at 400 and 533 FSB. Not hot running procs. Intel
>already sells the CPU pretty cheap. Even if the CPU, RAM, and
>hard drive were free you couldn't get a laptop with those specs
>for that cost. 
>
>I'm done flogging the dead horse. 
>
>That be all,
>Mr O.
>
>--- erock23175 at aol.com wrote:
>
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>
>>My thoughts exactly. To me it looks like a cheap way for
>>companies like Intel to get rid of the glut of hardware they
>>are experiencing due to a smaller than expected demand.? They
>>are probably ball-nukers meant to sterilize lower income
>>families....
>>
>>-E
>>    
>>
All
I agree with Mr. O., and I appreciate his levelheaded analysis.  And I 
agree with the suggestion in the original discussion at the vendor's 
site, that the whole thing was probably a pyramid scheme, meant to loose 
money delivering the first orders, and then clean up on the flood of 
later orders by not delivering.  It is a very old scheme, and I suppose 
we may be forgiven for not remembering it.  It is our own greed that 
traps us, not the cleverness of the scheme.
Regards
Fred James