Netbooks

[Jay Vaughan]

> I wish you could get these without windows so you don't have to pay  
> the premium - something that acer is supposed to be going back to,  
> Linux.


acer screwing with apple over the unix experience is a good thing, but  
of course there are lots of big and small fish in that pond.  an equal- 
field on the software front means hardware needs to get much, much  
better.  we see it, eventually the el-cheapo guys will match apple for  
hardware lust at the current rate of competitive releases .. and in  
case nobody notices, ubuntu is improving rapidly at a very good pace,  
as are other linux distro's.  if acer and co. aren't careful, there  
will be a sudden realization that anyone can run their own repo, and  
its .. well .. a huge software wave, again.  those who build these  
devices and those who use these devices, working together hand in hand.

i look forward to the 1ghz arm multi-core, extremely low-power  
requirements, on the horizon.  SOC and all that is great; multi-core  
makes all kinds of infinite possibilities.  low-power x86 is also  
competing, its true, but linux means that x86 conformity to a very  
dusty ABI is maybe not so important any more.

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Jay Vaughan