Re: [LUG] OT: [Fwd: Tech changes 'outstrip' netbooks]

["Grant Sewell" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did the Toshiba machine need wireless connectivity to be useful when it was originally bought? If not then it probably doesn't *need* wireless to be useful today.

Grant

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John Hansen wrote:

On 29/12/2009 15:35, tom wrote:

Rob Beard wrote:

On 29/12/2009 09:14, tom wrote:

Wait... You need Arm in order to boot into Linux? Wow... That told me!
Not quite! - Arm will run linux and use practically no power so you can have a Netbook you can carry around and not lurk by power sockets.
Windows will not run on ARM - so (to answer Henry) don't expect it for 8 or 9 either.
I've been watching MS closely for a long while and I'm convinced that Windows will NEVER run on ARM - I think its got so bloated (and badly managed) that they can never get it to run useably on ARM and call it windows.
Which is why there is so much effort to stop Netbooks....
Tom te tom te tom

Yup, unless the Arm chips get much faster (or maybe if they bung a few in there) then I don't see it happening. Maybe a Windows CE spinoff possibly, or something new running .Net code (like the XBOX 360 does on PPC).

Maybe though Google releasing the ChomeOS might change peoples perception of what they really need. I mean, how many people need a bloated OS just so they can run an instant messaging app, e-mail and web browsers?

I doubt that many people (if anyone) who has a netbook would need a full bloated office suite on there.

No-one needs a full blown office suite - except those that SELL them
Tom te tom te tom

I still have my first laptop a Toshiba Pentiun 100 with Windows 95 and Lotus Smartsuite which runs well even with a harddisk of only 800 Mb.
My two netbooks, one EEE PC with Xandros and one Dell Mini 9 with Windows XP also only have small harddisks 2GB and 8GB SSD.
They all have proven useful for travel purposes and I wonder if the old Toshiba would still prove capable of providing all that is needed if only it
could be provided with a wireless card.

John W

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