Jerry McBride <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:01:12 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Accessories Start Plugging Into Asus' Eee PC
>>
>> No question about it.
>> And the biggest and most important one will be Windows XP.
>>
>>
> http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/01/windows_xp_asus_eee_coming_in_q1_2008.html
>>
>> Good bye Linux, hello Windows!
>>
>> Watch for Asus Eee systems to SOAR in sales after Linux is jettisoned from
>> it.
>>
>
> It'd be too expensive... for such a modest hardware platform. Not to mention
> that XP is a slug on such modest hardware...
>
It will no longer be an lcl, though, it'll be an hcl, as the cost will
become high rather than low. Not only would you have to pay for the
windows licence, but you'd need office (also expensive) and then the
thing would need all the usual anti-virus which a) costs money and b)
brings machines to their knees.
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