Comments on: Linux and Netbooks – what’s the truth? http://www.thelinuxlink.net/myblog/2008/11/15/128/ Cultivate Your Own Garden Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: kevin http://www.thelinuxlink.net/myblog/2008/11/15/128/comment-page-1/#comment-22461 kevin Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:04:21 +0000 http://www.thelinuxlink.net/myblog/?p=128#comment-22461 from:

http://www.osnews.com/story/20568/EeePC_Return_Rate_is_Similar_for_Windows_and_Linux

EeePC Return Rate is Similar for Windows and Linux
posted by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 21st Nov 2008 19:39 UTC
IconLast month we covered an article titled, “MSI: Wind Doing Well, Linux Version Not So Much” which revealed that Linux MSI Wind netbooks saw a return rate upto four times higher than the Windows equivalent. But in a recent interview with the CEO of Asus he revealed that Linux and Window versions of Asus Eee PC have similar return rates. He also described the plans for 2009 and talked about some changes to come in the Operating System for the netbooks.

When asked about the return rates of linux based netbooks, Jerry Shen, CEO of Asus replied,
I think the return rate for the Eee PCs are low but I believe the Linux and Windows have similar return rates.

He also mentioned an interesting tidbit that a lot of Europeans go for the Linux version of the netboook.

]]> By: Iain Cheyne http://www.thelinuxlink.net/myblog/2008/11/15/128/comment-page-1/#comment-22416 Iain Cheyne Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:07:28 +0000 http://www.thelinuxlink.net/myblog/?p=128#comment-22416 Hi Dann

I’m a regular listener to TLLTS and I work for The Carphone Warehouse.

I have to be careful what I say and I’m certainly not speaking officially, but my impression is that we didn’t make it clear enough to our customers that the netbooks were running Linux. I don’t think the in-store displays mentioned Linux at all – but I may be wrong. Our sales staff certainly know little about computers.

Once again, the main problem with Linux is marketing and mind-share.

Iain

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