I might be showing my age a little here, but I remember 640kb being enough for an OS, and windows 95 comfortably fit in 16mb of ram a few years later.
Provided that you are not running a resource-hungry OS, and your applications have been coded properly, this netbook should run just fine.
If you want more serious performance/power, you have to pay serious money. As always, you get what you pay for!
I have to agree. There are less users, but they are overall more useful. I subscribe to the photography and technology groups, so I have a neverending stream of nice photos and interesting gadgets to look at on a slow news day.
In fact, I sometimes learn about new gadgets even before they pop up on slashdot.
So, G+ is aimed at a different group of people, and that being so does not make it a failure. Facebook pretty much has the market cornered with the Farmville and other online game types, G+ news seems to have more news from creative types.
Also, G+ is easy to train, and after weeding out the worst spammers, the rest is all good.
-Evert Vorster-
And while I understand Linus's point, nVidia has been really good at supporting their drivers. Every bug I found and reported had a real person working on it, and soon enough it was fixed. This is a lot better support than what I get with some open source projects that are not as well funded as nVidia devs.
So, binary blob = bad, but nVidia does make up for it by actually supporting their stuff.
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I might be showing my age a little here, but I remember 640kb being enough for an OS, and windows 95 comfortably fit in 16mb of ram a few years later.
Provided that you are not running a resource-hungry OS, and your applications have been coded properly, this netbook should run just fine.
If you want more serious performance/power, you have to pay serious money. As always, you get what you pay for!
I have to agree. There are less users, but they are overall more useful. I subscribe to the photography and technology groups, so I have a neverending stream of nice photos and interesting gadgets to look at on a slow news day. In fact, I sometimes learn about new gadgets even before they pop up on slashdot. So, G+ is aimed at a different group of people, and that being so does not make it a failure. Facebook pretty much has the market cornered with the Farmville and other online game types, G+ news seems to have more news from creative types. Also, G+ is easy to train, and after weeding out the worst spammers, the rest is all good. -Evert Vorster-
And while I understand Linus's point, nVidia has been really good at supporting their drivers. Every bug I found and reported had a real person working on it, and soon enough it was fixed. This is a lot better support than what I get with some open source projects that are not as well funded as nVidia devs. So, binary blob = bad, but nVidia does make up for it by actually supporting their stuff.