7 <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> MIDs to outsell netbooks in five years?
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>> | Linux stacks such as Moblin and Maemo will dominate the mobile Internet
>> | device (MID) market, says a report by ABI Research. The firm expects
>> | Moblin to take 42 percent of the market in 2013, when it expects 86
>> | million Linux-enabled MIDs to ship.
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>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3596691272.html?kc=rss
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> I'll believe it when they bring the price down.
Some of them are very inexpensive even now, though. The Elonex 1 is
about £100, the Asus EEE is about £200-£250 ish, so the prices aren't
that bad, and certainly, they're about an order of magnitude compared
with what we were paying about 5 years+ ago, where a reasonable laptop
was probably around £1000+ and a good one would've been £2,500 plus.
> Most of the cretins jumping on the bandwagon are selling
> over priced devices pandering to WINDUMMIES, even if nobody
> is buying the windummy models - so much so there are never enough Linux ones
> left on the shelves!!! How could dumb fscks loose so much money
> pandering to pro micoshaft fools I don't know - particularly
> Linux users are clamouring out of the woodworks to feed them
> with money!
>
> To sell higher volumes of machines, the price of the machines have to drop
> to account for Linux arriving on the scene and the WINDUMMIES will have
> to be left behind if their OSen can't run on the Linux machines.
>
> Lets face it, the WINDUMMY OSen is NEVER going to run at great
> speed on ANY Laptop!! So you may as well switch everything to Linux,
> and then ship with dual core or greater and train everyone to use
> Linux and if they must have WINDUMMY OSen, then tell them to run
> it virtual mode in a virtual PC where it will run at least twice
> as fast on the dual core!
>
Unfortunately, few people understand the technologies well enough to
realise that most of Windows' problems are inherent in its design (if
you could call it that), so are likely to believe, even in spite of
everything else, that a new machine will make everything right again.
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