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feh on Lenovo

Story: Lenovo ditches LinuxTotal Replies: 4
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tuxchick

Sep 08, 2008
6:47 PM EDT 		It's not like they put any real energy into it in the first place. Feeble, half-hearted, and totally not promoted. It never was possible to find the so-called Linux Thinkpads on lenovo.com. I think they never existed, it was just a bunch of vapor.
herzeleid

Sep 08, 2008
6:50 PM EDT 		Meh, these pee cee vendors and their timid, tentative efforts at linux offerings. a pox on them all...
tracyanne

Sep 08, 2008
7:08 PM EDT 		That sounds about right. When I was goining around the various hardware vendors, here in Aus, see my Dell posting, I contacted the Lenovo agents. The "nice" salesman told me they don't offer Linux as there is quote: no market for it. I suggested he was wrong he told me he wasn't interested in arguing with me, I told him he'd lost a customer and hung up.
gus3

Sep 09, 2008
12:10 AM EDT 		If there isn't a market for it, it's because poor marketing and sales practices have strangled it.
tracyanne

Sep 09, 2008
1:51 AM EDT 		Indeed, people won't buy what they don't know about. I've had enough surprised comments (that there is something other than windows and that other one) from people, when I've shown them Mandriva Linux, to know that properly marketed Linux will sell.

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