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« on: August 19, 2009, 12:41:55 PM » |
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I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
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« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2009, 01:20:00 PM » |
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Was using the beta for a while.
I was impressed.
That should tell you enough.
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« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 01:32:36 PM » |
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>was impressed.
I've seen a couple of comments that indicate that W7 beta was run on some netbooks but they did not mention the actual netbook specs. I'm skeptical but MS is being forced into a corner re XP and netbooks. What do you think, is it efficient enough to be able to live on a $300 netbook?
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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 01:56:25 PM » |
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I ran beta1. it was better than vista.
i ran beta2. it was better than beta1 and close to XP.
I run RTM now. it is better than XP.
its really not anything in particular except, there are lots of little details that make the GUI a whole lot better.
But here is the big one... Compatibility mode.
windows95 drivers the most current driver you have??? try it.
app wont install because its not made for windows7? switch to XP mode, yeay.
locked up 1 time on me, but I think it might have actually been firefox's fault.
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 02:09:41 PM » |
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Sorry RC, I don't have any netbooks handy. I have a couple very portable notebooks but they're the expensive, full-featured kind.
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 02:17:41 PM » |
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>they're the expensive, full-featured kind
Yeah, we have one R7 Toughbook that's Vista so it's a W7 candidate. As for the others, they'll probably just live out their lives on XP as I tend to migrate through hardware rather than change the OS. When I posed the question I was mostly thinking about future netbooks as MS has to do something or XP will be around forever.
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 03:16:49 PM » |
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If it can run vista, it will certainly run W7.
Also in W7, you can actually turn almost everything off. So im thinking you could do it on a netbook and would be viable.
Curious to see how that aspect pans out. but only as a passing curiosity.
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« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 05:03:09 AM » |
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If I had a netbook, it would be running Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
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« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 08:09:56 AM » |
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>ubuntu I have one on linux. It's the fastest booting one I have ....45 seconds from cold start to online. I keep it around just for that purpose. Get online. Read something. Get off. But all-in-all, I like XP. From today's reading: "Microsoft is prepping a slimmed down version of the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system to work on so-called netbooks." http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090819/a-nokia-netbook-seriously/ |
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« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 12:03:23 PM » |
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I wish there was a distro for netbooks that was runlevel 3 (as in command-line only, no GUI), but with all the proper wifi drivers and such.
I would be happy as a clam if that happened. I barely use a GUI as it is, and pretty much never for work (unless I want to open Netbeans to write Ruby, but I'm slowly switching to vim with Ruby syntax).
oh wait, actually I think I can do that.
I just don't want all the bloat of X or any other window manager to run in the background, and there are a lot of kernel libraries that get loaded to support all that bloat.
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 03:20:51 PM » |
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is it efficient enough to be able to live on a $300 netbook?
I'm running it on an Asus EEE PC 901 and it runs great if that helps. * Disclaimer: I had already upgraded to 2gb ram and a 30gb runcore ssd drive so I don't know about the base spec |
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 03:25:25 PM » |
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>runs great if that helps
Yes, it does. A friend in Denmark asked specifically about Asus and W7, so I'll pass that along to him.
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2009, 12:21:49 PM » |
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Couple interesting things there... first, of course, that Nokia sees the crossover market as well and is moving aggressively out of the just-handheld market and into 'books... but I am curious why they'd choose a for-fee licensed platform (Win7) as opposed to a *nix for a browsing box... unless there's something else they'd like to do with it that requires something Windows specific. Curious.
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2009, 12:27:55 PM » |
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>crossover market
I'm betting that they looked as how Asus' early sales moved from linux to xp, even though the pricepoint favored linux. The crossover market is already 'trained' by MS. Get the eyeballs first, then move them.
Since this is Nokia, I wonder if they'll go with a premium price?
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