OT: Redmond

[Eric Shubert]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:06 -0700, 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.
> ----
> nope - yesterday, I just got an Acer Aspire One and it has WinXP. All of
> the 'Windows' based offerings on Acer Aspire One are WinXP. Most of the
> devices termed 'netbooks' offer WinXP or Linux...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks
> 
> and for illustrative purposes, I got the one with 160GB hard drive,
> shrank the base Windows partition down to 32 GB, there's a 5 GB restore
> partition which I left alone, and partitioned the rest for Fedora 10
> which installed quick/easy from USB key.
> 
> FWIW - on the Windows partition...I removed the trial version of
> Microsoft Office, the included Microsoft Works, the addiction version of
> MacAfee, installed HP Web JetDirect Admin, OOo 3.0, AVG Free, iTunes and
> it's using 10 Gb...not that I plan on using Windows very much.
> 
> In defense of Windows installations, Fedora isn't exactly known for a
> light footprint installation either and I'll get back to you on the full
> installation size later but I don't expect it to be much less than 6 Gb.
> 
> Linux is running on my KVM/19" LCD at 1280x1024, wireless is working
> (without madwifi crap) and once my media library finishes copying, it's
> ready to roll.
> 
> The thing rocks!
> 
> Craig
> 


FWIW, I just built an XP Pro VM, and noted a few disk usage levels:
.) base install (SP1) - 1.6G
.) SP2 upgrade (incl IE7) - 4.0G
.) SP3 upgrade (incl .net 1.1) - 6.3G
.) restore points deleted - 4.8G
That's with no applications to speak of.

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-Eric 'shubes'