Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don’t know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realizing that it’s not what they are used to. They don’t want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks.
October 6, 2008
Returning Linux
August 14, 2008
Only Skin Deep…
Pictures showing that a nerds desktop can look like other operating-systems … at least from a few feet away.
It’s a good reminder that design is not just skin deep.