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Talbain
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 Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:09 pm |
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I'm gonna say the Asus EEE PC is still far more viable, as are many of the computers offered by Fujitsu, considering the price of the "Air" is ridiculous. Not that it's going to stop Mac freaks from buying it, mind you.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:55 am |
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| Broco wrote: |
| Truly they're the kings of PR. |
Compliment or snide sarcasm?
Personally, this is probably a bad thing; hype never lives up to reality after all. Build expectations up too much and when it comes crashing down, shit goes south really quick. The quick example is Vista.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:00 am |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
It looks pretty, networking is easier, driver nonsense is easier, it isn't a substantial enough resource hog to slow performance (at least with 2GB RAM, par for the course on a midrange gaming PC these days).
Though more what I mean is that it isn't worse than XP in any way (and in a few ways it is a little better), and in a couple years it'll be the standard, so you may as well go ahead and use it. |
1) Most any OS can be made to "look pretty."
2) Driver nonsense? For example? Just saying "it auto-installs drivers" is not much of an excuse; any Linux distro these days can now do this, and there are programs for Windows XP that can do it as well.
3) Actually, it is worse than XP, in many ways. In fact, in your own response you've named reasons as to why it's worse. It's a resource hog, first and foremost (up to a gig of RAM can be used for the OS at any time, and here's the kicker; it can also use up to 128 MB of graphics RAM if it's available, sapping not just your memory but your graphics capabilities as well)--it's hard to get access to the guts of the operating system because the operating system attempts to stop you from doing so. The operating system is embedded with DRM which means it can forcibly stop you from doing things it doesn't want you to do. I don't know about you, but I don't want a machine thinking for me. I'd rather not know and find out how to do it, than to simply have a machine tell me I can't do it.
4) The Vista upgrade, any of them, are EXTREMELY expensive. I could buy a computer for the price of some of the Vista options.
Yeah. I'm gonna say no thanks if all Vista can offer me is Office 2007 (which is likely different in no significant ways from 2003).
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