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Most likely it is the 'not very tech savvy' crowd which is buying these laptops for themselves or others without realizing that it's not a fully functional Desktop OS.

I can imagine a loving grandparent buying this affordable "Laptop" for their grand kids thinking this suits my budget. Or someone thinking sure this thing is like the one I have back at home.

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I imagine if the returns start getting out of hand that Amazon will put "Does not have Windows" prominently somewhere. Also, at least as of right now, the second review clearly mentions that this does not have Windows.

Not sure that would help that many grandparents. Not even sure my mother would understand. In fact, I'm pretty sure some of my kids wouldn't understand either. A lot of people see "laptop", or what ever, and expect it to do "laptop".

Again, a geek assumption about what non-geeks know.

I don't know about your parents, but mine don't browse Amazon looking for gifts for my kids. They go to BestBuy or Walmart and pick something up.

Additionally in an office full of software developrs there are multiple people who are looking to pick one up or have already done so ( Myself included ). I think the "not very tech savvy" crowd would be buying the name brand laptops with Intel processors and Windows since that's what we have trained them to do for 20 years.

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