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[David Adams]

This appeared on Slashdot yesterday- the general consensus (for many 
reasons) was that it was indeed a scam. I'd be *extremely* wary.

P.S. Uhh- hi, list! I guess this is as fine time as any to introduce 
myself- I'm a recent 'convert' to Linux (Ubuntu, actually) and I thought 
I'd join this list, lurk for a bit, then jump in when I had some 
problems. None so far. Ubuntu is awesome!

Cheers,

Dave.

steve jenkin wrote:
> Anyone heard of this?
> Scam or for real?? [If it's a scam, it'll put open source a long way back]
> Like the article says - how can they afford to do it so cheaply?
>
> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5746>
>
>   
>> The Celebrity has a 14 inch LCD, an Intel Celeron 1.5 GHz chip, a 40
>> GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory. Linux and office applications.
>>
>> The big question: How is Medison making money from this laptop?
>>     
> cheers
> s
>
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