Re: OLPC

Is it still a SSD?

Honestly, I'd be willing to take the performance hit and use a
bargain-priced 32Gb CF card as hard disc. I really wish I could
justify an EEE. My old IBM 385XD finally bit the dust, and so I could
use a laptop... the EEE offers a well-integrated, almost Mac-like in
that sense, package, without being more horsepower than I really need
to run Firefox and a SSH client.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com>
To: mmarch@gmail.com; Main PLUG discussion list
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Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 1:09 pm
Subject: Re: OLPC










ah, so you get more HD with the Linux version?

despite this I still think the factors I cite are valid.

-jmz


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael March <mmarch@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The new Linux based 9 inch eee has a 20GB hd while the XP version has
a 12GB
hd.
>
> Pretty cool in my eyes.
>
> --
> <march>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Joshua Zeidner" <jjzeidner@gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:53
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> Subject: Re: OLPC
>
>
> A similar thing with eeePC. Asus offers no difference in price if
> you run Windows. I think M$ sees this as a major threat to their
> market share and are willing to do whatever it takes to stop Linux
> users from being created. You can be sure the high costs you are
used
> to will be amortized over a longer period and embedded in difficult
> structures.
>
> On the positive side, this means you stand to have M$ eating out of
> your hand if you get in the low-cost laptop market.
>
> I consider it to be quite unscrupulous of the OLPC team to run
> programs like G1G1 and then sell out to M$. No wonder the OLPC
> president resigned.
>
> -jmz
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org>
wrote:
> >
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows
> >
> > Looks like they're going to ditch linux and run windows.
> >
> > Ugh.
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