Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops

rsmiller510 writes "The EE Times reports this week that Dell has released a hybrid laptop running both Linux and Windows clearly aimed at business travelers. Linux for quick tasks and Windows for more intensive ones, but will such a machine really fly in the business world?"

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Re:Bassk askwards

[Culture20]

You're currently marked funny. Really mods? Powerpoint and Outlook/Exchange are the last reasons to keep a windows box (when the rest of your company is using Windows). If your customers are using Windows, then Powerpoint is the sole reason.

Re:Will it fly? What do you mean win needs 4GB?

[davidsyes]

Jesus H. Christ. What kind of person would mark me troll and be allowed to KEEP me as Troll?

Damn it, NOTHING IN THAT POST WAS FALSE, INTENTIONALLY FALSE, OR LIBELOUS!

My laptop is a Gateway P-6301. It was SOLD with only 1 GB RAM, bought by me at Best Buy, late Dec 2007. I bought the upgrade RAM at CompUSA in Jan/Feb 2008. I downloaded demos OF and later paid for licenses TO of Punch! ViaCAD and IMSI TurboCAD. I installed VirtualBox on the machine because it was pointless to install Win4Lin, and because the damned machine came with Vista.

I NEVER TO THIS DAY let that vista touch the Internet natively and not via VirtualBox. THE ONLY TIME I surf using windows is at work, between tasks. But when on lunch, i break out my laptop so people near and around can see Linux (Mandriva) and KDE4.1 in play.

Now, you troll-marker out there, you are the kind of person who makes it fortunate that duelling is illegal in the US. (This is NOT an invite, nor a threat, but laws keep in check those of us who'd blow a gasket at being marked as troll by YOU because YOU cannot handle the truth, and seem incapable of allowing that someone's word is actually true and unassailable.)

If troll-markers were required to monkey-click tick boxes indicating they searched for and read their targ... vict... subject's related posts, you would have found out that in no fewer than 3 or 4 times i talked about my laptop, it's make and model, what i do with it, and more. (Doesn't /. have a powerful search engine? Why are "troll" marks allowed to post without forcing the mod to jump hoops first? Posting or sharing a story is more difficult than condemning someone to troll status...)

It is NOTHING SHORT OF PATHETIC, though, that Slashdot hasn't fully tapped the power of limiting the power of troll-markers.

Anybody out there care to weight in and show the troll-marker s/he cannot get away with this?

Just a little bit more....

I also want to reiterate that Slashdot is partly at fault for allowing this kind of behavior on the part of troll-markers to occur because instead of using a histogram of scoring/grouping of users' comments, it only shows the latest/last. If things were displayed as historical, then readers could personally assess, visually, whether or not a post is being victimized or assailed by grousers who have no other way of nailing people like me. But, then, such grousers/troll-markers are allowed to get away with hit-and-run/broadside down-scoring, possibly just to piss off people like me who 99.999999999% of the time stay well within the law, but who will at least verbally retaliate --because going further than that is too damn risky...

So, once again, Slashdot admins, Slashdot code could do us all a favor by making troll-markers a thing of the past, or by exposing these hit-n-run moderators. Anyone who marks someone a troll should be flagged as foe, automatically and irrevocably. Anyone who is a habitual foe could or should find their account suspended, or publicly down-rated, and every time they become a foe, every one of their targets should be spiral-graphed so people can know to rescue victims (after all, we humans like to say we are mostly good, kind, benevolent... sure, sure we are...). Usually, though, collectively, /. regulars can automatically by memory ignore or punish anyone who regularly hollers or horns along on a daily, nauseating pattern, but at the same time, with impunity, troll-markers can comfortably slam targets and never be found out or forced into a "cooling-off" period.

Finally...

One day, i dare assert, some geek here will lose his/her cool, sleuth out their victim, and then hunt him/her down and make headlines. I hope that, should that day come, /. will take its share of the blame (rather than letting persist the "let them eat cake" status quo) and indicate it willfully chose not to implement histograms and cooling-off periods. Marking someone a troll should blatantly require the marker to JUSTIFY it