On 29/12/2009 15:35, tom wrote:
Rob
Beard wrote:
On 29/12/2009 09:14, tom wrote:
Wait... You need Arm in order to boot into
Linux? Wow... That told me!
Not quite! - Arm will run linux and use practically no power so you can
have a Netbook you can carry around and not lurk by power sockets.
Windows will not run on ARM - so (to answer Henry) don't expect it for
8 or 9 either.
I've been watching MS closely for a long while and I'm convinced that
Windows will NEVER run on ARM - I think its got so bloated (and badly
managed) that they can never get it to run useably on ARM and call it
windows.
Which is why there is so much effort to stop Netbooks....
Tom te tom te tom
Yup, unless the Arm chips get much faster (or maybe if they bung a few
in there) then I don't see it happening. Maybe a Windows CE spinoff
possibly, or something new running .Net code (like the XBOX 360 does on
PPC).
Maybe though Google releasing the ChomeOS might change peoples
perception of what they really need. I mean, how many people need a
bloated OS just so they can run an instant messaging app, e-mail and
web browsers?
I doubt that many people (if anyone) who has a netbook would need a
full bloated office suite on there.
No-one needs a full blown office suite - except those that SELL them
Tom te tom te tom
I
still have my first laptop a Toshiba Pentiun 100 with Windows 95 and
Lotus Smartsuite which runs well even with a harddisk of only 800 Mb.
My two netbooks, one EEE PC with Xandros and one Dell Mini 9 with
Windows XP also only have small harddisks 2GB and 8GB SSD.
They all have proven useful for travel purposes and I wonder if the old
Toshiba would still prove capable of providing all that is needed if
only it
could be provided with a wireless card.
John W
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