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____/ Linonut on Sunday 24 August 2008 20:47 : \____
> * bbgruff peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> nessuno@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.
>>
>> 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?
>
> We may be on our way to a bloatware antidote!
Isn't "netbook" a dangerous trademark? ARM is enetring this market soon and
maybe AMD as well. A low-end laptop (or sub-notebook) has nothing to do with
just one corrupt company that bribed and sabotaged a charity only to slap its
trademarks on the very same 'invention', which forced it to end the
price-fixing gig.
[rant /]
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