Warning labels
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| Sander_Marechal Apr 02, 2009 12:38 PM EDT |
Quoting:Intel and Microsoft warn that consumers should remain skeptical about the performance of a computer that costs less than $300. No. They should come with warning labels that they come with a crappy OS and hardware limited to the standards of a crappy monopolist. I think ARM will be great for netbook manufacturers. ARM means no Windows so the hardware limitations go out the window. I expect ARM notebooks to quickly gain a lead hardware-wise on Intel/Windows netbooks. And in those cases I predict customers will want the most bang for their buck and go with ARM (and Linux) instead of Atom/Windows. |
| bigg Apr 02, 2009 1:13 PM EDT |
ROFLMAO If there's a company that knows about hardware needing warning labels, it's Microsoft. Remember the "Vista Ready" labels on laptops with 512 MB of RAM and a single-core processor? What really makes this funny is that Microsoft plans to make money on netbooks by selling a crippled version of Windows 7, and then when customers realize they've been tricked, the only option is to pay to remove the restrictions. |
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