Retailers toast welcome return of Back2School notebook biz The Back2School sales fest that deserted the retail notebook industry a year ago has returned with a bang… sort of. According to distie sales numbers crunched by Context, shipments across Western European wholesalers jumped 12.5 per cent in the first two months of Q3 and were up 17.5 per cent in the UK. The sales are …
Is there anything in Windows 8.1-with-Bing that can't be changed by the user? The El Channel article says that only the hardware maker can't change Bing as the default IE search engine, but that there are other differences. If not, one could presumably save some coin on the new breed of netbook.
I bought a couple of fat old Dell Precision M4300s for my girls on Ebay ("mobile workstations").
OK so they're anything but light but they withstand a fair bit of abuse, and have high-res screens especially useful for young people with enviable near-field eyesight. Oh no no Windows 8? Well Ubuntu will have to do for them.
Cost me £40 for the pair (plus the odd spare disk battery etc)
Even at 'refurbished' prices of around £200 they are still good value, particularly when compared to a sub-£250 device being sold in the "Back2School" category. It is scary to think that those new devices typically have a lower performance benchmark than a device sold in 2007...
Yes , Macbook Air's can probably boot linux.
Get them while they're young.
Teach them that pretty, beats functional.
Get them used to upgrading for $CORPS profit line.
Get them entrenched in closed software for a life time of servitude.
By no means let them think for themselves.
We might have lost the parents, but there is still hope for the kids...
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