[TriLUG] Netbook

Tom Eisenmenger teisenmenger at charter.net
Wed Oct 27 16:17:24 EDT 2010


Jobs wasn't around for the Newton - that was Sculley's baby!!

Tom


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Tim Jowers wrote:

> For sure Newton is enough to prove Jobs is not "just lucky"!!!
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:27 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> 
> wrote:
>> I wonder if the old apple newton wouldn't qualify as predating 
>> Microsoft in
>> the tablet PC market...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_%28platform%29
>>
>> William Sutton
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Tim Jowers wrote:
>>
>>> Freedscale has a Linux tablet targeted at $200.
>>>
>>> 
>>> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Freescale-Chromium-Tablet-ipad,9832.html#xtor=RSS-181
>>>
>>> Others are releasing these too. Its sorta funny since the Windows
>>> tablets have been out for several years. I guess Jobs claim to fame 
>>> is
>>> repackaging an existing product in a nicer package. Well, maybe one 
>>> of
>>> these Linux tablets can even beat him. For sure, Linux is way more
>>> standard than Apple.
>>>
>>> E.g. Shogo tablet:
>>> 
>>> http://www.junauza.com/2010/05/shogo-linux-tablet-potential-ipad.html
>>> and a whole host of Android tablets such as
>>>
>>> 
>>> http://www.lightinthebox.com/wholesale-Laptops--Notebooks_c1386?gclid=COL0p8Lg86QCFSZl7AodAzBchg
>>>
>>> Truly commodity hardware! It wasn't 15 years ago when the hardware
>>> vendors were shooting to break the $1000 price barrier. Now the 
>>> price
>>> is falling right into impulse buying areas!
>>>
>>> Tim Jowers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kevin Hunter <hunteke at earlham.edu> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At 10:50pm -0400 Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Henry Middleton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a local vendor where I can get a netbook with Ubuntu
>>>>> pre-installed?
>>>>>
>>>>> I want it pre-installed so that:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) I do not need to pay for a copy of Windows that I will remove
>>>>> anyway
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) I know the hardware is Linux-friendly.
>>>>
>>>> There was an Ask Slashdot about this a couple of years ago that I 
>>>> thought
>>>> had some good discussion.  Let me test my google fu ... yes:
>>>>
>>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/0027212
>>>>
>>>> Some of the comments may be pertinent to your decision, but I think 
>>>> it
>>>> boils
>>>> down to three things:
>>>>
>>>> 1. How much time are you willing to invest in this?
>>>>
>>>> 2. Linux is hardy so you only need to make sure that the there is
>>>>   driver support for all the pieces and parts before you buy the
>>>>   machine.  Much more so than Windows, Linux will Just Work if it
>>>>   has a driver.
>>>>
>>>> 3. How much cash are you willing to spend?
>>>>
>>>> Don't forget that unless you have a personal investment in this, 
>>>> time
>>>> /is/
>>>> money; you'll be hard pressed -- living in USA and posting on this
>>>> mailing
>>>> list -- to make a case that much more than 10 minutes is worth the 
>>>> ~$10
>>>> you
>>>> might save.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
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