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"What's this thing? It looks pretty cool. What pretty icons! Can I
touch them? I can, really?" Etc. That basically describes our
infantile thought process when we stumbled across the DreamScreen 400
(not to be confused with the DreamScreen photo frame line), a new all-
in-one desktop from HP, but suddenly it all became clear: this thing
is built for the Indian market, and us chubby Americans will have to
keep on dreaming. Still, it's an interesting thought experiment. HP
has long sought to differentiate itself in its Windows-based
offerings, and even at times abandoned its first OS love with its
Mobile Internet Edition Ubuntu-based netbooks and now its upcoming
webOS tablets. The DreamScreen 400, which runs some flavor of Linux
with an extensive, touch-friendly HP skin on top, sort of demonstrates
an alternate reality where HP decided to pursue Linux in the consumer
desktop space -- Microsoft be damned. Of course, this is also an
actual reality: you should be able to buy this 18.5-inch desktop in
India for Rs. 19,999 (about $450) in India right around nowish, and
we'll see where HP takes this software from here.
[Thanks, Chris J.]
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