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Disappointing Hardware, Support for Linare's $500 Laptop 19

Posted by timothy from the sounds-like-e-machines-of-old dept.
Provataki writes " Remember this great deal about Linare's $500 laptop deal at wal-mart? Probably was too good to be true. Missing shipping dates & bad support take away the excitement."
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Disappointing Hardware, Support for Linare's $500 Laptop

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  • I was gonna get one of those this summer. I guess it *was* too good to be true. :(
  • Too bad, the hardware specs were impressive for the price, and a simple cheap memory upgrade would have turned the thing into a VERY nice machine for the price. But of course if Linare refuses to tell anyone where the SODIMM sockets are, then forget that.

    • Re:Too bad... (Score:1, Offtopic)

      by MoOsEb0y ( 2177 )
      on the same vein as a sibling post.. taking apart your laptop is a great way to find out where the ram sockets are. I was taking apart an alienware area 51-m (sager 5630), and took EVERYTHING off the bottom only to realize the ram slots were right beneath the keyboard. Two minutes later I had my mated pair of samsung 256 MB PC2100 SODimms :) Oh well. Horror stories like these make me glad I've ordered a name brand computer. Sure, I'm paying twice as much, but the specs are a lot nicer and it probably weig
      • I actually had a good experience purchasing a non-brand-name computer. I purchased a Compal whitebook and purchased the parts seperately (I paid to have it assembled for me however). Compal is an ODM, one of the companies that makes the notebooks for most major companies like Apple or Dell, and Compal is actually one of the largest ODMs at that.

        My notebook has no brand or label, and the area usually reserved for a logo is blank. However I love my Compal CL56, and am very glad I chose it.

        I too performed my
  • Sentence from the original Slashdot article:

    Manufacturer Linare said that it will bring a Linux-based device to the retailer 'within the next few days.'

    Two e-mails from the new article:

    "Thank you for your interest in Linare products . your order will be shipped on or before 14th march with out fail . Sorry for the delay , due to heavy back order we were not able to ship you earlier."

    and

    "Thank you for your interest in Linare products . your order will be shipped before this week end . Sorry

  • Ow (Score:2, Informative)

    by NeoChaosX ( 778377 )
    Wow, does that suck regarding support. Let's just hope some more reliable companies starts producing PCs with Linux reinstalled. A first impression like this may discourage some people from looking into Linux PCs in the future.

  • But this is Wal-Mart (Score:3, Funny)

    by lw54 ( 73409 ) on Saturday May 07, 2005 @04:36PM (#12463828)
    Just take it back..

    We've all been taking things back to Wal-Mart years after we bought them, long after we lost the receipt.

  • His problem was... (Score:3, Informative)

    by ebrandsberg ( 75344 ) on Saturday May 07, 2005 @07:41PM (#12464730)
    He didn't buy it from Walmart. Guaranteed they got their orders on time, anybody that ordered direct would be placed behind the bad boy of consumer sales for order fulfillment.
  • The late shipping and misdocumented root password are unfortunate but for $500 you can expect to provide your own support. By underselling they've made it difficult to grow to meet demand. With such a large backorder and low profit margin, I doubt providing support is very high on their priority list.
  • This is one company that needs to go under. They treat there workers very poorly with low pay and no or costly benefits.

  • This was a PC sold on Walley World's Wonderful World Wide Web Site, right? That truly sucks, but it's right in line with the kinds of cheap-in-many-ways suppliers they decided to align themselves with since Mr. Walton's passing. Proof enough, I guess, that they can stain Linux on laptops with a rap as bad as Windows on E-Machines and Compaq laptops. Shame.

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