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Story: Acer launches £199 subnotebook

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Posted by: harpless (Wednesday 4 June 2008, 6:43 PM)

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Linux making inroads?

This is good for 2 reasons:
1 - Computers are getting cheaper at the time when the price of everything else is going up.
2 - Another major computer maker pushing Linux, perhaps this will force Microsoft to cut their prices on future operating systems!

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