... now how about some faster hard drives? Seriously I sit in front of my P4 1.7, and my T-Bird 800, which both have extremely fast hardware, but I wait for the hard drive to load large graphics, save files, etc... When do we get 10,000 RPM Hard drives? What happened to Serial IDE? Wasn't that supposed to be the next big thing? A hard drive spinning at 7200 RPM, and transfer rates of 100 MB/s really are a huge bottleneck now. And don't say we don't need anything faster than that, I'm pretty sure we don't need anything faster than 2GHz for our home computers either... I don't have enough money for Fibre Channel... would be nice though.
Actually, I don't think a MS Office for Linux would be that bad of an idea. I realize posting any thing anti-anti-Microsoft here on/. is usually considered a sin, but think about it. When a friend attempts to send you a word processed document, or a table, it's usually a MS Office document. Now I realize you can import and export using StarOffice, but it isn't the same... just try a PowerPoint presentation, the last time I did, there were many discrepancies. I've used Linux for years now, and it IS lacking on this area. StarOffice just doesn't cut it all the time (and it's not the best for slower machines), and Red Hat's Applixware is missing things... just my opinion... Oh yeah, do you think they could wage total war against an OS they sell $400 software for?
Ummmm, dude. I have a Handspring VISOR standard, not deluxe, and it runs great. Cheaper than those "official" Palm Pilots, and runs same software, oh yeah, we've got the 'Net coming too.....
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... now how about some faster hard drives? Seriously I sit in front of my P4 1.7, and my T-Bird 800, which both have extremely fast hardware, but I wait for the hard drive to load large graphics, save files, etc... When do we get 10,000 RPM Hard drives? What happened to Serial IDE? Wasn't that supposed to be the next big thing? A hard drive spinning at 7200 RPM, and transfer rates of 100 MB/s really are a huge bottleneck now. And don't say we don't need anything faster than that, I'm pretty sure we don't need anything faster than 2GHz for our home computers either... I don't have enough money for Fibre Channel... would be nice though.
Actually, I don't think a MS Office for Linux would be that bad of an idea. I realize posting any thing anti-anti-Microsoft here on /. is usually considered a sin, but think about it. When a friend attempts to send you a word processed document, or a table, it's usually a MS Office document. Now I realize you can import and export using StarOffice, but it isn't the same... just try a PowerPoint presentation, the last time I did, there were many discrepancies. I've used Linux for years now, and it IS lacking on this area. StarOffice just doesn't cut it all the time (and it's not the best for slower machines), and Red Hat's Applixware is missing things... just my opinion... Oh yeah, do you think they could wage total war against an OS they sell $400 software for?
Ummmm, dude. I have a Handspring VISOR standard, not deluxe, and it runs great. Cheaper than those "official" Palm Pilots, and runs same software, oh yeah, we've got the 'Net coming too.....