Indeed, Plasma is configurable, so if you want to run it as a tablet you CAN. Or feel free to ignore it...
Win 8 was designed to compete with touch screen platforms such as iOS and Android which both display rows of icons full screen. The mistake MS made was inflicting this on traditional mouse/keyboard desktop users, which wasn't that the whole point of the Windows 10 makeover...
One reason why almost nobody wants it; especially for school.
I can plug in at many places, so a 90 min limit is a good excuse for a coffee break.:) I'm typically carrying 5kg in my backpack, so a power brick doesn't bother me!
Don't be too snobby about about the cpu "branding"... 6 years is a long time.
I'm referring more to the low end CPUs being intentionally crippled by Intel for the low-cost/tablet market to limit them to a 1 or 2 GB - I wouldn't spend $300 on such a machine. Like I said, mainstream manufacturers like HP are still selling low-end devices with WXGA 14" screens that max out at 2GB. I didn't check Dell/Lenovo at that price point but their models seemed 25% extra at my local shop.
i hate typing on a "hot" keyboard, or listening to the fans.
No problems with the keyboard. The fan does get noisy but libraries are surprising loud, even in the 'quiet area' zones. So I usually have a pair of headphones.:)
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate quiet and have a fanless machine at home - this is purely a portable device with a screen.
Do yourself a favor and swap in an SSD:)
Like I said, I do have a debian testing SSD on standby for when I'm done playing with Win 10.
To summarize, a $US35 laptop isn't for everyone - if I were working professionally and needed a laptop for work I'd probably look at a Surface Pro 4. But equally, I'll save my money by not shelling out for a new 'budget' machine.
Or if all you want is 6 year old hardware, you can pay considerably less on a used laptop. Why would I spend $300 on a pos shiny new budget entry level HP netbook with a crappy Pentium/Celery/Atom?
Case in point, I have just started a university course and wanted a portable. $AUD50 (that's about $US35) bought me a Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM and a 250GB HD (no bad sectors). It's winter, so I save on heating.
It came with a 3 month warranty, 90 mins of battery life, and a re-imaged install of Windows 7, now upgraded to Windows 10 Home. When I get tired of Windows 10 I'll swap in my 128GB SSD running debian to give the machine a speed boost, which cost more than the laptop - 2 computers ago.
And I can leave this laptop in a busy library while I pee - no one's going to steal a scratched up Toshiba when all the cool kids half my age leave unattended $1000 macbooks.:)
Yeah, I told microsoft in their survey that although my upgrade to 10 was splendid, colleagues, friends and relatives would probably stick with XP and Vista, so there was no point in recommending 10 to them.
(And that's for 2008 era Core 2 Duos that would easily meet the hardware requirements...)
Windows 10 is trying to compete with Android and iOS in making a cloud connected app platform. In that respect I don't see Win10 as any more or less 'evil' than the other two players.
Whether that belongs in a traditional desktop operating system is another debate.
Do ZTE market phones in the US, like they do in Australia, where you can pick up an Android handset at the supermarket with your groceries? If so, contact the distributor - the Open C runs Firefox OS and there was a model update Open L rumoured in the pipeline back at the mobile conference a few months back.
Failing that, get a Nexus 4/5 and flash a nightly build. But if you just want to see the platform in action, you can load an emulator right in Firefox via the WebIDE menu item.
Except that there's historical precedent with the European Union.
[I'm typing this on Firefox in Windows 10 Home!]
They should tread lightly as far as regulation. Another thing that I'm sure will cause authorities to froth at the mouth is the wifi sharing. ISP lobbyists mightn't like customers sharing. Of course the 3 letter agencies might actually enjoy it - catch one bad guy and you can track down all his friends via 7-degrees-of-BinLaden.
Well the whole point of Boot To Gecko is to, well, boot to gecko. When everything is a HTML5 document running inside a web engine atop a Linux kernel, the concept of a 'Browser' is meaningless. There is an icon on Firefox OS called Browser but it launches as just another app.
With a chunk of work could swap out Gecko for Blink and more or less you'd have Chromium OS.
(1) I'm not sure on the specifics of phones/watches but in my country, one can claim as a tax deductibility a 'salary sacrifice' if equipment is used for work purposes. e.g. that $70/month shiny iPhone 6 plan might be subsidized by the government if you BYOD but maybe not if it's purely for personal use.
(2) I'm surprised hypervisors with dual SIM haven't caught on yet. i.e. you run your own personal stack as the host OS and work provides you with a secure encrypted image to load as the guest OS. That way they only have control of the virtualized environment which is remotely scrubbed on employment termination or theft.
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Carbon credits and Bitcoin mining are both Ponzi schemes?
Indeed, Plasma is configurable, so if you want to run it as a tablet you CAN. Or feel free to ignore it...
Win 8 was designed to compete with touch screen platforms such as iOS and Android which both display rows of icons full screen. The mistake MS made was inflicting this on traditional mouse/keyboard desktop users, which wasn't that the whole point of the Windows 10 makeover...
Those stingrays can be fatal if you get too close.
Or perhaps European railway stations might just implement baggage scans on long-distance journeys.
What the heck is a 'jeb', anyway?
I can plug in at many places, so a 90 min limit is a good excuse for a coffee break. :) I'm typically carrying 5kg in my backpack, so a power brick doesn't bother me!
I'm referring more to the low end CPUs being intentionally crippled by Intel for the low-cost/tablet market to limit them to a 1 or 2 GB - I wouldn't spend $300 on such a machine. Like I said, mainstream manufacturers like HP are still selling low-end devices with WXGA 14" screens that max out at 2GB. I didn't check Dell/Lenovo at that price point but their models seemed 25% extra at my local shop.
No problems with the keyboard. The fan does get noisy but libraries are surprising loud, even in the 'quiet area' zones. So I usually have a pair of headphones. :)
Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate quiet and have a fanless machine at home - this is purely a portable device with a screen.
Like I said, I do have a debian testing SSD on standby for when I'm done playing with Win 10.
To summarize, a $US35 laptop isn't for everyone - if I were working professionally and needed a laptop for work I'd probably look at a Surface Pro 4. But equally, I'll save my money by not shelling out for a new 'budget' machine.
Or if all you want is 6 year old hardware, you can pay considerably less on a used laptop. Why would I spend $300 on a pos shiny new budget entry level HP netbook with a crappy Pentium/Celery/Atom?
Case in point, I have just started a university course and wanted a portable. $AUD50 (that's about $US35) bought me a Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM and a 250GB HD (no bad sectors). It's winter, so I save on heating.
It came with a 3 month warranty, 90 mins of battery life, and a re-imaged install of Windows 7, now upgraded to Windows 10 Home. When I get tired of Windows 10 I'll swap in my 128GB SSD running debian to give the machine a speed boost, which cost more than the laptop - 2 computers ago.
And I can leave this laptop in a busy library while I pee - no one's going to steal a scratched up Toshiba when all the cool kids half my age leave unattended $1000 macbooks. :)
What if climate change were a big vegan tree-hugger leftist conspiracy but we cleaned up the planet anyway?
Eeek! On vacation I tried American coke just to see how awful it truly was.
Cane sugar, ftw.
6-7 coffees a day contains a similar level of caffeine and no sugar? :)
If motorists would leave their cars in the garage when they travel 2km to pick up 15 items or less at the express checkout...
Just personally, waking up to juicy meat on an empty stomach doesn't thrill me.
Tofu with stir-fried vegies is pretty darn good. And, otherwise, I'm no vegan.
The people that invented bacon and eggs had it partially right - just dump the hash browns, toast and orange juice :)
And new x86_64 computers sold in 2015 without an optical drive that do boot via USB?
I believe the OP was referring to Wine.
Like the review says, running a smartphone OS on 2007 era hardware - which wouldn't be supported by any recent release of Android or iOS.
Try running a recent 2.5 build. I've been Android free for a year and loving it.
Yeah, I told microsoft in their survey that although my upgrade to 10 was splendid, colleagues, friends and relatives would probably stick with XP and Vista, so there was no point in recommending 10 to them.
(And that's for 2008 era Core 2 Duos that would easily meet the hardware requirements...)
Windows 10 is trying to compete with Android and iOS in making a cloud connected app platform. In that respect I don't see Win10 as any more or less 'evil' than the other two players.
Whether that belongs in a traditional desktop operating system is another debate.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
And workplace productivity improved 10%. Suck it up princesses, if you want to play solitaire at work, it's only fair you buy your own copy!
Sorry, I usually use debian and the only Windows PCs I have in the house are still running XP.
I did however buy a used Win 7 laptop this week for mobility, which now has 10 on it, which I'll upgrade to Linux soon enough!
Do ZTE market phones in the US, like they do in Australia, where you can pick up an Android handset at the supermarket with your groceries? If so, contact the distributor - the Open C runs Firefox OS and there was a model update Open L rumoured in the pipeline back at the mobile conference a few months back.
Failing that, get a Nexus 4/5 and flash a nightly build. But if you just want to see the platform in action, you can load an emulator right in Firefox via the WebIDE menu item.
'My Computer' doesn't exist on Windows 10.
'This PC' has replaced it. Presumably if you buy a phone, explorer shows 'This Phone' or similar.
Except that there's historical precedent with the European Union.
[I'm typing this on Firefox in Windows 10 Home!]
They should tread lightly as far as regulation. Another thing that I'm sure will cause authorities to froth at the mouth is the wifi sharing. ISP lobbyists mightn't like customers sharing. Of course the 3 letter agencies might actually enjoy it - catch one bad guy and you can track down all his friends via 7-degrees-of-BinLaden.
Well the whole point of Boot To Gecko is to, well, boot to gecko. When everything is a HTML5 document running inside a web engine atop a Linux kernel, the concept of a 'Browser' is meaningless. There is an icon on Firefox OS called Browser but it launches as just another app.
With a chunk of work could swap out Gecko for Blink and more or less you'd have Chromium OS.
Mesa/nouveau are released under an MIT license. Any time MS want to hire their core developers, the option is there.
(1) I'm not sure on the specifics of phones/watches but in my country, one can claim as a tax deductibility a 'salary sacrifice' if equipment is used for work purposes. e.g. that $70/month shiny iPhone 6 plan might be subsidized by the government if you BYOD but maybe not if it's purely for personal use.
(2) I'm surprised hypervisors with dual SIM haven't caught on yet. i.e. you run your own personal stack as the host OS and work provides you with a secure encrypted image to load as the guest OS. That way they only have control of the virtualized environment which is remotely scrubbed on employment termination or theft.