Comments on: Dell announces new contender in netbook market

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:31:30 +0000

Good old Asus eeePC 901 on Linux is the business. Less than 30 seconds from hitting the switch to using it, super reliable, portable, long lasting battery, etc etc. There’s nothing else on the market to match it yet (Feb 2009).

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:53:37 +0000

“Thought to become a heavy contender against the MacBook Air [...]. Running Windows Vista Home Basic [...]“.

Nothing running Vista is a “contender” for anything.

“[...] a $600 Dell laptop beats a $3k MacBook Air any day.”

Not once you factor in the loss of performance and lower productivity that running Vista entails.

“I would much rather have my child lose a low priced netbook than a high-dollar PC”

I would rather crawl three miles over broken glass than foist a convicted monopolist’s crippleware on my children.

“in most cases a [Vista] netbook is really going to do everything that someone (especially a younger user) would want to do.”

Like having DRM spy on them? Like calling home to Microsoft? Like automatically deactivating software that is unilaterally deemed to be pirated? Like annoying them with endless UAC prompts? Like having backdoors for the NSA? Like getting infested with malware, spyware and trojans? Like being a poorly-performed resource hog?

By: Emily Price

Emily Price — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:22:03 +0000

Thanks! Sorry for the mis-type

By: John Pospisil

John Pospisil — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:57:33 +0000

Typo fixed. Thanks Akers.

By: Akers

Akers — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:15:49 +0000

Surely a 21.1″ screen SLIGHTLY defeats the object of a netbook?! I assume that’s a typo…