[Info-vax] OT: For Mr VAXman: Microsoft racist gaffe !

[John Wallace]

On Sep 21, 5:18 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 8:54 am, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)"
>
> <a... at nonymous.com> wrote:
>
> > I recently purchased one of these Toshiba netbookshttp://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=440193 and will be
> > installing OS X on it later this week (10.5.7, or 10.6.1 if there is a
> > concensus in the Hackintosh community that it can be made to work). Many
> > people have done this (with approprite kexts added). Many of these
> > 'Hackintoshes' also have linux and Win 7 installed as triple-boot systems.
> > Some even have Parallels running to allow simultaneous use of the os'es.
>
> Having purchased a generic Toshiba (WinBook) and an actual Toshiba
> laptop, I will never buy another product from them.  I don't care how
> good their marketing is or how cheap they get.
>
> I'm really sad that Pro-Star switched from AMD to Intel trash.  They
> used to make the best notebooks.  As to NetBooks, I'm waiting for a
> good AMD version that has actual battery life.  If you read the fine
> print on those NetBooks they are generally rated for 2 hours (phrased
> as "up to four hours").
>
> I am a big fan of the NetBook move towards a smaller form factor.  I
> have missed my 486sx Austin notebook every time I traveled.  It was
> small enough to open on a train/plain and booted in DOS running a text
> editor or WP I could get over 6 hours out of the battery...WP had to
> be tweaked to save only once every half hour though.  Now, NetBooks
> are just about that same form factor...they just don't have anywhere
> near the battery life.  Most of them don't even have a built in CD/
> DVD, so they don't have the option of doing like Compaq and a few
> others did...letting you swap your CD for a second battery to boost
> usability.

If things go right, there ought to be some rather nice (Strong)ARM
based Netbooks before too long. Now there are a few obvious things to
bear in mind, like they won't run Windows/x86, but they will probably
run a nice Linux (Ubuntu Netbook Remixes seem popular) and because
they're ARM they should have decent battery life, maybe even without
needing an "extended life" battery.

Maybe soon we'll be back to where HP were back in 2000, with an ARM-
based PDA-with-keyboard (with 640x240 display), the Jornada 720, which
unfortunately back then was hampered with Windows CE. Of course any
vendors who do play the ARM/Linux game will loose any "goodwill" they
currently get from the Wintel gang... but if the product is right,
maybe they can make it up in netbook sales (somehow that seems
unlikely though).