[Arm-netbook] CT-PC89E - translation of meaning behind this alibaba page

[Ben Dooks]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:14:18PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Michelle Konzack
> <linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> > Hello Luke,
> >
> > Am 2010-03-26 11:31:20, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> >> http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/277571430/8_9_TFT_LED_2GB_NAND.html
> >
> > The whole describtion sounds weird...
> 
>  yes i know.
> 
> > If you scroll down, you find in "Product Details"
> >
> >    Brand:  HONGJI
> >
> > and below
> >
> >    7.0-inch Netbook, 2GB NAND Flash, VIA 8500 CPU 300MHz, 128MB Memory
> 
>  yes i know!  but the photo is definitely of an 8.9in Chitech
> CT-PC89E, and it used to have, in the description subject, "Lunix and
> Linux OS".  that was changed to "Wince Compatible (not supplied)"
> within a week.
> 
> 
> >> could someone please provide me with their "best guess" as to what it
> >> means when, immediately following messages where a company is
> >> non-responsive, the above appears on alibaba.com, originally with the
> >> words "Linux OS" and "Lunix OS" in the title, followed one week later
> >> by REMOVAL of those words and replacement with "Wince Compatible (not
> >> supplied)", followed by modification of the machine's status to "Used"
> >> ?
> >
> > Maybe because it is anothermachine and not the CT-PC89E
> 
>  my guess is that they cut/paste an existing 7in machine's alibaba
> description, threw in some extra words to make it like it was the
> right machine.

There are a number of possibilites, companies often use the same case for
more than one product, sell bits to others (or have brought them in from
somewhere else).

It could simply be recycling of generic photo.

-- 
Ben

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