Sunday, March 9, 2008

Insert your own Windows pun here...

Why falling Flash prices threaten Microsoft

200 quid laptops? And the only "drawback" is that it runs linux and open office? I ran my home pc for a year with only open office. I only added office because I had to do some desktop publishing--- professional level stuff. Not what most home users need. Not even what I need 95% of the time. The vast majority of the time, I can survive with Google apps and a web browser. And openoffice is just a bonus. I don't do design work (usually) on a laptop, simply because it is cumbersome. (And my desktop is faster, with more memory, a bigger hard drive, and a dvd burner. And since I built it, I can upgrade it pretty easily.)

But a laptop the price of an ipod? And the size of a book? That I could use as a pda, ipod, _and_ a computer. I think I could get used to that.

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