Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
It seems that after Intel, just about every chip maker wants a piece of the netbook pie. AMD is an obvious competitor, but VIA is also eyeing the little notebooks. However, more exotic options like the Chinese Loongson chips and ARM's Cortex A-8 and A-9 chips are also among the contenders. We can now add a new contender: Freescale.
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Shoehorn, in the sense of the size of the OS vs size of the primary storage unit on a netbook.
BeOS (my present OS) can fix in 170MB, Haiku should be less than 500MB.
How big is a useable OS-X? I have assumed at-least 1.5 GB, but correct me if I am wrong. I am never too old to learn more.
Note 1: I mean the basic installation that includes all the apple services (search, I-xxxx, etc) you would normally use within a year. But not any of the additional apps that everyone needs to add to an OS to get the work done.
Note 2: Am I correct in saying that Windows XP can be shrank a lot because of the number of services included that most users don't need/want?