My 10-month-ish old Eee PC 701 is running the Ubuntu Eee distribution with Firefox, OpenOffice.org suite and many other apps, and my data on the 4GB storage it came with. 10GB just for the OS (no office suite, etc.) seems really, REALLY big to me. Microsoft is just stuck in the hardware upgrade treadmill for their development model. Computers got "fast enough" for the public back at Windows XP. But MS kept counting on the public running the hardware treadmill for Vista. The public stopped running and Vista was left too bloated for what people wanted. Now MS is trying to change to match the market's growing realization that most computers and software are already "good enough." That's my theory as to why MS missed the mark with Vista. Windows 7? Don't care about it until I run into it on my path to a Linux install. ;^) Alan On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Joe Fleming wrote: > I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, most > of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you don't believe > me..... all of their netbooks on display are running vista. It was enough to > make me not want to buy any of them, but I digress. I've read the m$ has > claimed that the reason most of them can't is because of the lack of storage > space, a problem that 7 clearly doesn't solve. > > As for the storage space, my Ubuntu install is using about 10GB right now. > Of course, that's with an office suite, a webserver, a few websites, my > email, a bunch of pictures and documents accumulated over the 2 years it's > been installed (over 3GB in my home directory right now)...... that's kind > of the same, right? I mean, kinda, right? > > For the life of me I can't understand how the hell they use up so much space > for JUST the operating system! As an aside, I read that IE8 uses more memory > that the whole of XP too. Crazy. > > -Joe > > keith smith wrote: > > So can we speculate that M$ is making Vista/win7 less resource intensive so > it can compete in the netbook environment. > > I understand it takes up about 10 Gigs of space. > > Would be nice to have an O/S that requires less and is more efficient. > Maybe we can recycle some old hardware :) > > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > > > > --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Josh Coffman wrote: > > From: Josh Coffman > Subject: Re: OT: Redmond > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM > > From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who are running win7, its > described as "Vista without the crap". It performs nearly as fast as WinXP > and with far lighter hardware requirements than Vista. (which isn't hard) > From the screenshots I've seen, it has a lighter look and feel that Vista, > but that's just "make-up". I'm going to make a vmware machine with it so > I'll see for myself. Since it will be on the same machine (mac) as my WinXP > vm (which I do use a lot), I'll be able to compare them easily. > > Vista was a near daily frustration, either I've gotten used to the pain or > its gotten a little less painful. Probably both. I still don't like Vista. I > have to deal with it though. So I hope Win7 is better, a lot better, because > windows a part of my job. > > As an aside, I use Vista, WinXP, and Mac OSX a lot. Ubuntu holds itws own > againts all of them. I've read some people think Win7 is a linux killer > (speaking of the netbook market). I don't buy that at all. > > -j > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Joe Fleming wrote: >> >> I'm really curious what all the fuss over windows 7 is all about. I mean, >> it's just vista with a few changes, and from what I can tell those changes >> are pretty small. I always think it's funny seeing sites talk about how bad >> vista is and how much better 7 is, considering it's really nothing more than >> a point release/service pack with a new name. Apparently m$ actually DOES >> know how to play the marketing game. It'll be interesting to see how it's >> received by consumers and the press when it's finally released I guess. Me, >> I still don't have any problem running XP; works beautifully in VirtualBox >> ;). >> >> -Joe >> >> James Finstrom wrote: >> >> I like to imagine it is because I am important or that its because I went >> to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but >> none of these things are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I >> got an invitation and license to download and play with Windows 7 beta. So >> let me share the expierience and overview so far I like things with the word >> free even if it is only as in beer and only for a short time, Anyhow with >> fear and the smell of danger that acompanies all things that say Microsoft >> and Beta in the same typography I clicked the shiny banner answered a few >> questions and got a key + link. the minimum requirements say 1Gig ram and >> 128M video and blah blah something something okay whatever click.... Anyhow >> the download comes up says this could take several days depending on your >> provider and the download size is...... 2.44 GIG holy redhat batman I need >> to go buy a dvd to burn this down to, well so much for free. Anyhow it is >> chewing up some bandwith that can be better allocated but I am going to grab >> it if for nothing else just to see if http://xkcd.com/528/ is true... >> >> >> James Finstrom >> Rhino Equipment Corp. >> >> ________________________________ >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________ > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss