Comments on: The year of the Linux … Mini Laptop!

By: rm42

rm42 — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:33:04 +0000

Can you post this in English using Latin characters? Thanks.

By: Неактуальный Барак

Неактуальный Барак — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:14:05 +0000

Ну и ну, с чего это исключительно так? Размышляю, что можно сделать, чтобы прояснить этот обзор.

By: AC

AC — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:52:31 +0000

Asus has just recently released the specs for the Eee 901, 1000, and 1000H (901/1000 have Linux; the 1000H has WinXP). The 901/1000 have a battery life of 4-7 hours – which looks nice. They are also going to sell the ‘Eee Box’ – a mini desktop- later this year. So, more of what you wrote about.

By: Caitlyn Martin

Caitlyn Martin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:15:33 +0000

My pleasure. Your English is very good, certainly better than my French or Hebrew or anything else. I wrote hastily and my original comment contained errors too. It should have said “loose is the opposite of tight”. Oh well… Anyway, I’m glad youu took my comment in the spirit it was intended.

By: rm42

rm42 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:42:35 +0000

Caitlyn,

Thanks for the correction. Since English is my second language I am always happy to take any help that comes my way to improve my writing.

By: Caitlyn Martin

Caitlyn Martin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:05:03 +0000

Um… that’s English, not Enlish. I make mistakes too.

By: Caitlyn Martin

Caitlyn Martin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:04:14 +0000

I mostly agree with this article and it sums up the current situation pretty well. One point that’s a pet peeve of mine: Microsoft is willing to LOSE money on certain products, not “loose”. Loose is the opposite of find. Lose is the opposite of find, or in the case of money, make. Posts like this are far more convincing when written in proper Enlish.

By: josvazg

josvazg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:49:32 +0000

I agree with the article but don’t think it’s going to be such a big thing.

I mean, is good that more people now knows that Linux is an option, but many will buy the Linux eee, becuase of the lower price and bigger disk, to install XP later over it.

It’s also good that manufacturers are seeing the advantages of Linux, but most of the time it’s just the Asus current “threat” to Microsoft; “Don’t make XP too expensive or I go Xandros-only”, they keep Linux around because is flexible (they can do with it what they please) AND because is a weapon to negotiate against Microsoft. The later reason seems more important to them than the first one (and it should be the other wayaround)

So, yes Linux minilaptops will proliferate, but in the end they will just be a marginal market share, just for geeks like me.

Don’t take me wrong, I am quite happy about this, I just don’t think nonLinux users will start to “cross the river” this year.

By: Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf)

Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér (mjjzf) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:44:01 +0000

The year of the desktop is a but old, but I think there can be no doubt that this is the year of the Linux UMPC.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:49:28 +0000

“when Dell came out with their Linux line, it was clear that Linux for the general consumer had arrived”

That’s really the only part I disagree with. They aren’t really targeted at the general consumer. More for the consumer who is already using Linux and doesn’t want to buy Windows. Asus and one project you didn’t mention, OLPC, were the products that introduced Linux to the general consumer. The credit should go to them.