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____/ Rex Ballard on Monday 25 August 2008 13:39 : \____
> On Aug 24, 4:38 pm, bbgruff <bbgr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Prices of hardware falling....makes it harder to make a profit on
>> > expensive, bloated software, doesn't it?
>>
>> Oh yes:-)
>>
>> It might be interesting sometime for us here to postulate the
>> minimum-reasonable-specification for a machine capable of what (say) 90% of
>> home users (and probably office users, come to that!) actually need,
>> assuming that "fast games" aren't a requirement.
>
> Even more interesting to postulate the impact of Moore's law on an
> "All solid state" PC in which cost and performance aren't limited by
> disk drive rotational speeds and Microsoft's bloatware.
>
> If the costs of the electronics drop by half in 18 months, and the
> performance doubles, the NetBook running Linux could drop in price to
> around $200 by this time next year, and would be twice as fast, and
> would have 32 gig internal and external flash drives. It might also
> be able to be in "standby" for 200 hours (like a cell phone), and in
> active mode for 6-8 hours between charges..
>
> Alas, it would still be too little for Vista, so Microsoft would have
> to continue to support a slightly more jazzed up version of XP (Pro?),
> and still would only support a crippled version of Works (word only?).
>
>> For instance, imo a netbook, with perhaps the ability to plug in a bigger
>> monitor and full-size K/B when at the desk, is probably more than enough?
>
> I have an ASUS EEE, and it's no problem at all plugging into a high
> res monitor, and a full size keyboard when at a desk. It shouldn't be
> much longer before we can get 1080p resolution using the hotel HDTV as
> a monitor, and use a foldable full-size keyboard similar to those used
> with PDAs. Or the "rollable" one that packs so nicely into duffle
> bags or laptop cases.
I wonder just how much manipulation is going on behind the scenes with ASUS. A
spokesman recently dropped some hints about Microsoft intervention. Rest
assured, for talking about it the Microsoft Munchkins will resort to attacking
people. They know it's true.
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| "There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally
| signals publicly -- and their customers are using it, so it's important that
| Microsoft have a good interoperability story on that front. Linking up with a
| Linux vendor is a good way to do that," added Paul DeGroot, a Directions On
| Microsoft analyst.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64232.html
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