Well , ill have to second that , having almost 5 Seagate 1 TB drives in my home server , and 3 of them have been refurbed within a year . Mind you that these were used only for storing large files and with not a lot of read write happening.
in india there is already a project under development called the simputer by picopeta solutions.. which is based on a standard 2.4 linux kernel and runs off a 3oo mhx strong arm cpu..with a touchscreen and battery . many state governments have started to use it on a trail basis for stuff like data capture and so on. there are plans to subsidize it so that it can be widely used in rural areas.it even has a nice speech to text feature for the local languages.
though it costs around 160$ right now.. subsidy and mass production should maybe get it down to $100...
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Well , ill have to second that , having almost 5 Seagate 1 TB drives in my home server , and 3 of them have been refurbed within a year . Mind you that these were used only for storing large files and with not a lot of read write happening.
The point is, you lose NOTHING by trying. Fire up bittorrent, grab Ubuntu (or whatever flavor you like), and try it.
... purchase Vista.
:).
If you aren't pleased
If you arent pleased Download vista any flavour you like
A humbug?
in india there is already a project under development called the simputer by picopeta solutions.. which is based on a standard 2.4 linux kernel and runs off a 3oo mhx strong arm cpu..with a touchscreen and battery . many state governments have started to use it on a trail basis for stuff like data capture and so on.
.. subsidy and mass production should maybe get it down to $100...
there are plans to subsidize it so that it can be widely used in rural areas.it even has a nice speech to text feature for the local languages.
though it costs around 160$ right now
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i remember try to press the tab key so that i could find my lost keys in the room could be highlighted