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Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom"
Alex Dekker writes "Sony's Mike Abary says in an interview, 'If [Asus's Eee PC] starts to do well, we are all in trouble.' Presumably by 'we' he means all the hardware manufacturers who sell over-priced, full-fat laptops. And he's not going to be too pleased when he sees the Linux-powered, sub-$200 Elonex One. Looks like what's bad for Sony may be good for the consumer." The CNet article mentions that a version of the Eee running XP is available in Japan now and will be coming to the US within weeks.
The fat to be cut is the OS. Sorry Microsoft, your days have been numbered a long time.
Next thing you know, there will be competition in the "permium" chipset market too. That's another free software strength. Sorry Intel, you will have to make chipsets that deliver more than Winblows and heat.
There's enough flame left from OS/2, BeOS, BBCPC, ARM, Alpha and others to consume the entire Wintel world. Good riddance to 35% profit margins and performance that sucks. Hello to better computing for everyone.
If you start cutting away at storage space, memory etc... you start to seriously limit what we can allow consumers to do.
In other words....
People won't be buying your bloated crapware because you only know how to code in VB6/.Net/Python/Java. You have no skills in computer programming and bitch that people are stupid because your bloatware won't run on the computers they buy.
I think perhaps you maybe the stupid one.
from one folder on LEAST I WON'T had at lunchtime AASOCIATION OF My efforts were 800 w/512 Megs of you get distracted