normally_impaired wrote:
I can't see any good reason for having Vista or Win7 on a netbook. A netbook is basically a computer from 10 years ago with a tiny screen and keyboard. It doesn't have enough power to do that much more than web browsing, word processing, and playing solitaire. These are all things that even a basic Debian Linux system can do flawlessly. Windows is too bloated for a regular computer. My Dual Core Centrino with 4 gigs of ram still runs significantly slower under Windows than it does under Linux. The difference is that the amount of computing power it takes my brand new system to run windows while idling with no applications running is close to the total power of many netbooks on the market right now.
Also it makes me wonder, if a netbook can go for around 200 bucks, how much of that goes into the OEM license for Windows?
I got a netbook from the first generation of netbooks . I have also played with computers more than 10 years ago. Listen to this: netbooks are much more powerful than computers from 10 years ago. Their processors are much faster. The screen is 'small' but even it got a better resolution than what old computers used to have. The SSD disk is much faster than any hard drive back then. And be sure 4 GB would have been sci fi for the guys using those computers . And the biggest difference is that 1 GB of RAM is incredibly large in comparison with the 16 MB standard that was back then...
Not to mention, a good Linux distro like Ubuntu netbook remix's Jaunty jackalope is zillions of times ahead in power, ease of use and speed and stability in comparison to the first windows 98 version.
netbooks are quite useful. I use them for programming, and they are much more portable. No offense to laptops fans, but I'd rather have the smaller screen than having a powerful, expensive computer I can't take with me almost everywhere I go...
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24 May 2009, 11:49 am
