Re: [tlug] ARM Netbooks Will Only Run ****x (was Re: Unix's 40th Birthday)

[Alexander Danilov <alexander.a.danilov@example.com>]

Curt Sampson пишет:

> Further, what with Moore's law and all that, I wonder if "netbooks"
> will exist as a category distinct from low-end notebooks in a couple of
> years, at least as far as CPU and memory and so on are concerned. A used
> Lenovo X60 will set you back about the same as a new netbook (40,000
> yen or so), and with a Core2Duo T5600 dual-core CPU, it makes a pretty
> reasonable desktop replacement for the non-demanding user. It's not much
> larger than a typical Netbook, and a lot more usable (almost-full-size
> keyboard, 1024x768 screen). 

Used notebooks has one serious disadvantage over netbooks - short battery
life, even with new battery (I compare with my eepc901). So from one side
X60 still nice notebook, from the other side - not enough portable.

> In three years, we will have $500 notebooks capable of running Vista and
> larger than current netbooks mainly because of the 1450x900 screen and
> near-full-size keyboard.
>
> cjs

:) Today I reboot into Vista on my T60 to check some hardware, crawl is the most
exact definition of Vista speed.