OLPC

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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 at gmail.com>
To: mmarch at gmail.com; Main PLUG discussion list 
<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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 at 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 at gmail.com>
>
>  Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:53
>  To:"Main PLUG discussion list" 
<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>  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 at 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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