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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
This is interesting. According to Geek.com, which has links to the respective company press releases, Lindows -- the well-known (and terribly-named) Linux operating system manufacturer -- and Seagate will soon be marketing 40 GB Barracuda 7200 rpm hard drives pre-loaded with the Lindows operating system. Here's how it will work: According to Lindows, the new drives will be able to automatically detect the installed components of "virtually all Intel-compatible computers." Additionally, Lindows claims that the drives will be able to be moved from one computer to another without requiring a system disk, automatically detecting the new computer's hardware and configuring itself to the new system. This isn't intended for individual consumers, however, but for companies making so-called "whitebox" generic PCs. What's more, the LindowsHD drives won't cost any more than unformatted drives. The OS is free, in other words, at least for the whitebox manufacturers, so we assume Lindows gets a piece of the sales action. We think the concept is a good one for Mac users, though. What if you could buy a replacement hard drive with Panther already loaded? Sure, there's probably a reason why this wouldn't work. And that would be?
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