[O/T] Cheap laptops?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 00:59 -0700, Dog Walker wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 18:33 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> HP isn't American?
> >
> > You mean they are made in the US? That would be unique.
> >
> > Is there any computer made in the US? Or Europe?
> >
> >
> > --
> 
> Systemax:  www.systemaxpc.com/

Great. There is one. Do they actually make a motherboard?

As an aside, I like this computer description on their site:

SYX Venture VX11 Desktop PC - Intel Dual Core E3300 2.5GHz, Genuine
Microsoft Windows® 7 Professional 32-bit, 2GB DDR2, 250GB, DVDRW,
Customized with XP Pro Downgrade

Genuine Windows 7 with a customized downgrade to XP Pro? And it is not
April 1st.

I wonder what they mean by this statement:

"Systemax has licensed this unit with Windows® 7 Professional, and
downgraded it to Windows® XP Pro."

I think DELL PCs in Europe are at least given their final
configuration/assembly in Ireland. But this is of rather high-level
components (add a hard disk or a network card) made outside the EU.

Are there many more?

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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