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tracyanne

Feb 09, 2009
4:02 PM EST 		http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/06/microsofts-plan-to-up... you will see that Microsoft marketing speak for the netbooks... well any computer, is "experience" as in

Quoting:But for the cheapest netbooks, he believes it’s better to have even a limited version of Windows than Linux, the rival operating system that had a big share of netbook sales when they first came out.

“We want Windows to run on those experiences,” he said.


They are no longer computers or devices, they are experiences.
techiem2

Feb 09, 2009
4:04 PM EST 		Experiences most of us would like to avoid....
tracyanne

Feb 09, 2009
4:07 PM EST 		even if the "experience" is running Linux?
techiem2

Feb 09, 2009
4:10 PM EST 		Nah. Linux is fine of course. But Windows experiences are...well..you know as well as I do how well those tend to go.
ColonelPanik

Feb 09, 2009
4:19 PM EST 		Just experienced a non-Linux moment over at the Asus site. They are comming out with a new Atom CPU. The specs all around are the same as the one now being used in EEE XXX except for battery life. The new N280 says Asus, will have up to 9.5 hours of juice. But where is the Linux model? Just xpee?

The tax refund will NOT go to Asus!
hkwint

Feb 11, 2009
12:29 PM EST
Quoting:The new N280 says Asus, will have up to 9.5 hours of juice. But where is the Linux model?


Interesting here is than Intel did the same as Microsoft: Limit the abilities of their cheap products which are in fact good enough for lots of people to make sure it doesn't eat market share of their expensive products which nobody needs.

Buying an Atom-netbook with XP is limiting oneself both on the hard- and softwareside.

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