Buying A Netbook? Think Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 19:09.
Many netbook computer buyers are still reluctant to "take a chance" on Linux rather than Windows XP. But which operating system is really the riskier choice for a netbook buyer?
As a rule, netbook vendors will pre-install and support either Windows XP or Linux. While many netbook buyers will stick with Windows XP since it's the most familiar choice, that doesn't mean it's the best choice.
First, consider the cost of the netbook compared to the cost of the software running on it. In particular, consider Microsoft Office, which currently retails for a little over $300.
Does it really make sense, given any possible alternative, to double the price of a new netbook simply to run one software package?
The vast majority of business users today will find that OpenOffice.org gives them all of the features they need in a business productivity suite, and it offers excellent interoperability with existing Microsoft Office document formats. In fact, the only thing that keeps many users from switching is force of habit -- a habit that most small-business owners simply cannot afford to indulge, since OpenOffice.org won't cost them a penny to install and use.
What does this have to do with Windows XP, which supports OpenOffice.org just as well as Linux does?
Netbooks fill a need ? Vista is high end ? Linux, low end ?
Netbooks are for the population doing cloud computing or business transactions such as ebay? It fills a need for simplicity(ease of use) and low investment, hopefully low maintenance.
It currently is very limited in internet connection speed. The future is telco or cableTV edgeQam USB connectivity(160 mbps in each parallel channel).
Once edgeQam technology is used, Vista with dedicated memory protection(cache) for each thread will increase speeds of data transmission that you can not even imagine. Vista can handle 1000 threads in Ultimate version. It needs Netbooks with 4 gB of drams and 250 mB of hdd. It can use edgeQam USB threads, 1000 at a time(same time), in one time slice. Netbooks may use 1000 super submicron cores of 8 bit cpus to do data transfer?
So, that is how the cookies crumbled, Linux has no development labs to test their data transfer speeds big time.