Two articles from OSNews reveal the pros and cons of the Linare sub-$500 notebook and the LinuxCertified LC2210D laptop.

Linare Sub-$500 Notebook Review

“When I read the article on Slashdot & OSNews that Linare was putting out a sub-$500 notebook, I immediately jumped on the deal. I purchased a laptop directly from Linare in early February. Their site stated that I would receive the laptop in 2-4 weeks. I waited in anticipation.

“After the third week and no information received I decided to e-mail Linare and find out when I would be contacted, and more importantly when I would receive my laptop…”

LinuxCertified LC2210D Laptop Review

“We got in a new loaner from LinuxCertified.com, the brand new LC2210D model: a Centrino 1.80 GHz CPU, 512 MBs of RAM, Intel Extreme gfx card, 40 GB drive and a 14″ XGA TFT screen. The laptop comes with the latest Ubuntu installed and sells for $1249. Read more for our review.

“The laptop also sports a firewire port, a pcmcia port, an SD/MMC reader, a combo drive, 2 usb ports, modem, wifi, ethernet, integrated mic, mic-in and headphones-out audio jacks. The build of the laptop is solid and it has pretty good looks too…”