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[News] New Eee PCs with Linux are Better-specced PCs Than Windows

  • Subject: [News] New Eee PCs with Linux are Better-specced PCs Than Windows
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:22:33 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
9-inch EeePC named EeePC 900 and gets detailed specs

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| The Windows XP equipped model will ship with an 8GB drive with the Linux 
| models having either 12GB or 20GB capacities. 
| 
| It did not say why the Linux models were getting larger SSDs.  According to 
| Laptop Mag, The display will be 8.9-inches and has a resolution of 1024 x 
| 600, as previously reported.  
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2008/03/09/9-inch-eeepc-named-eeepc-900-and-gets-detailed-specs/

With Windows, you get less for more.


Recent:

Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest 
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask 
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
| 
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have 
| to go with that. 
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc


Vista SP1: Still lagging behind the Linux desktop

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| I've now been working with Vista SP1, the so-called RTM (release to 
| manufacturing) version, for about two weeks. I am amazed at how little 
| improvement I see in this so-called major update.  
| 
| Last year, I took a long, hard look at Vista versus desktop Linux, testing 
| SimplyMEPIS 6, in a four-part series. In the months since then, we've learned 
| that Microsoft lied about how much hardware was needed to run Vista in an 
| affair that we're now calling Vistagate.   
| 
| Personally, I didn't need to see Microsoft/Intel e-mails to know that "Vista 
| Capable" PC requirements were so much BS. I found that doubling Microsoft's 
| minimum daily PC requirements would get you to the point of a bearable Vista 
| experience. Not a good one, mind you, just one that wouldn't have you pulling 
| out your hair.    
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5456703154.html


Vista Is No Linux

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| Most people don't need Windows or its software. So, you show these people 
| Linux on a Live CD; show them Open Office; show them Thunderbird or Evolution 
| Mail; show them Pidgin; show them the hundreds of other applications that are 
| just as good as if not better than their Windows counterparts. Then, you look 
| at them, and you say these magic words, “And it's free.”    
| 
| You wouldn't believe how many people switch.
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Vista_Is_No_Linux.html

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