Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 21st Nov 2008 19:39 UTC
Last month we covered an article titled, "MSI: Wind Doing Well, Linux Version Not So Much" which revealed that Linux MSI Wind netbooks saw a return rate upto four times higher than the Windows equivalent. But in a recent interview with the CEO of Asus he revealed that Linux and Window versions of Asus Eee PC have similar return rates. He also described the plans for 2009 and talked about some changes to come in the Operating System for the netbooks.
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2008-07-15
On the early netbooks this was certainly true. With much of the recent models however it is not so impractical as you would think. Sure, you're not going to be doing any heavy audio or video work on them and they're definitely not meant for 3d gaming. But apart from that, most software--be it a windows program or a *NIX program--actually will run quite well. Most of the problems experienced are related to the bottleneck of disk access, as some of these netbooks come with horrible SSDs and require a lot of tweaking. I usually avoid the SSDs at this point and get a straight hd for this reason, I like the space and the faster speed. I know SSD could be faster than a hard drive, and on the high quality SSDs this is probably true. But they're expensive for the amount of space you get, and most netbooks for this reason come with cheap SSDs that make even a 1.8-inch, 4200 RPM hard drive look fast.