Yes the X-series tablet will run linux distro's to your hearts content, however like I said many of the features will be unavailable, including any of the ThinkVantage Technologies that Lenovo puts on them such as the RapidRestore, or Access Connections programs. http://www.thinkwiki.org/
Technically no its not new, its been "available" on the market for about a month now, however Lenovo had no stock available for them, however shipping on these machines is still 1-2 weeks delivery time - fairly reasonable for ordering directly through Lenovo's website.
The idea of a tablet is to be portable and not bulky, ideally, the size of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. In terms of processing power, what do you need a more powerful processor for? I could only imagine playing CS or any other game with a digitizer pen. "The guy fragged me! as I slammed down my pen!" In terms of graphics, is due to battery life consideration. Running an ATI or NVidia chip will increase the power required to run everything and greatly reducing the battery life. On an average ThinkPad system running an ATI or NVidia chip decreases the battery life by almost 1/2 as compared to the integrated 128MB Intel graphics card.
You would need a linux distro that has native support for the tablet to effectively use the tablet portions of the machine itself. Many of the tablet features, such as the "always-up" dialog toggle, and many other features interact directly with the Windows API unfortunately
I most certainly have tried over Antivirus solutions out there, and I do agree with your statement about "Free" versions. But they're not listed as free versions, they're listed as Free trials. I work in the PC retail market.
And in regards to NAV catching everything, nothing on the market does either. Its like saying, I can run ad-aware and never have to worry about another piece of spyware on my computer. You can run ad-aware, and then spybot, and then Microsoft's AntiSpyware and still catch more, so why should we expect Symantec to catch everything? Nothing's perfect.
more of a liability than a benefit? So are you saying that I should run a windows computer without antivirus protection? Of course not, but anything is better than nothing
Well I may not be a first time Slashdot poster, and I do regularily read what others are say about the posts, but I do have to say after reading most of the comments, I would have to say that this is one of the better Microsoft versus other people arguements that I have seen in a while.
I'm a trusted Microsoft and Symantec fan. I enjoy and use both of their products frequently and rely on them just as much. Microsoft makes a decent operating system. Defiantly not the best one out there, but all slams aside which OS doesn't have their problems? Symantec makes a great product as well. Sure it's a memory hog, but to me, I'd rather take a slower system if it means I have "better" protection. I'm sure I'll get some feedback on that comment.
Here's my only slam, for now. It's viruses, not virii. Virii is not considered a word according to the dictonary. Viruses is. Deal with it.
The flash based map is great, however with the launch of Google Local out of Beta and Google Maps, one would have to wonder why Google isn't using their own API's to show the data instea of using a flash based program.
What's revolutionary about it? Simple, its revolutionary compared to what Microsoft has been providing before the Vista release. Sure, Microsoft has borrowed ideas from various other OS's, but what's revolutionary about those OS's?
Ok, I've been to Italy before, but why is it that we have high resolution images of this area, but yet, a simple Southern Ontario location (2 hours west of Toronto, yet alone most of Ontario) http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.886140,-81.31093 0&spn=0.043135,0.081050&t=k&hl=en still doesn't have an equivalent zoom level? Is it that we're just cannucks or what?
Microsoft is a major player in software technology. While they're a debate amongst people as to what good they've done to the software world, or what they've done wrong to the world is to up for debate. $100 million in advertising isn't worth the cause, other than awareness. Windows Vista is a big step forward for Microsoft. They're finally saying "lets forget about the small people" and push something "revolutionary". Look at Apple, do you know many people still using Mac OS 7.5.1? sure, there's a handful, but I can name you more than 100 users that I still know using Window 98. Microsoft has to stop saying that they need to continue support for those users. Irregardless of that, if you're buying a new PC once Vista is on the shelf, you're guaranteed a copy, but will it convince people to stop and buy a new copy? No. People are content with what they have. Irregardless of what you have to say about Win9X/ME/200x/XP, they're decent operating systems. But having to upgrade my whole system isn't worth it. Whether people choose to embrace Vista like they did 95 is to remaian to be seen. Will you upgrade to Vista because you're forced to, or because you want to?
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I forgot to include the link to where I referenced the battery life http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=40
Yes the X-series tablet will run linux distro's to your hearts content, however like I said many of the features will be unavailable, including any of the ThinkVantage Technologies that Lenovo puts on them such as the RapidRestore, or Access Connections programs. http://www.thinkwiki.org/
Technically no its not new, its been "available" on the market for about a month now, however Lenovo had no stock available for them, however shipping on these machines is still 1-2 weeks delivery time - fairly reasonable for ordering directly through Lenovo's website.
The idea of a tablet is to be portable and not bulky, ideally, the size of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. In terms of processing power, what do you need a more powerful processor for? I could only imagine playing CS or any other game with a digitizer pen. "The guy fragged me! as I slammed down my pen!" In terms of graphics, is due to battery life consideration. Running an ATI or NVidia chip will increase the power required to run everything and greatly reducing the battery life. On an average ThinkPad system running an ATI or NVidia chip decreases the battery life by almost 1/2 as compared to the integrated 128MB Intel graphics card.
You would need a linux distro that has native support for the tablet to effectively use the tablet portions of the machine itself. Many of the tablet features, such as the "always-up" dialog toggle, and many other features interact directly with the Windows API unfortunately
I most certainly have tried over Antivirus solutions out there, and I do agree with your statement about "Free" versions. But they're not listed as free versions, they're listed as Free trials. I work in the PC retail market.
And in regards to NAV catching everything, nothing on the market does either. Its like saying, I can run ad-aware and never have to worry about another piece of spyware on my computer. You can run ad-aware, and then spybot, and then Microsoft's AntiSpyware and still catch more, so why should we expect Symantec to catch everything? Nothing's perfect.
more of a liability than a benefit? So are you saying that I should run a windows computer without antivirus protection? Of course not, but anything is better than nothing
Well I may not be a first time Slashdot poster, and I do regularily read what others are say about the posts, but I do have to say after reading most of the comments, I would have to say that this is one of the better Microsoft versus other people arguements that I have seen in a while.
I'm a trusted Microsoft and Symantec fan. I enjoy and use both of their products frequently and rely on them just as much. Microsoft makes a decent operating system. Defiantly not the best one out there, but all slams aside which OS doesn't have their problems? Symantec makes a great product as well. Sure it's a memory hog, but to me, I'd rather take a slower system if it means I have "better" protection. I'm sure I'll get some feedback on that comment.
Here's my only slam, for now. It's viruses, not virii. Virii is not considered a word according to the dictonary. Viruses is. Deal with it.
The cartoon The Jeffersons was set in 1997. Where's my personal maid robot?
The flash based map is great, however with the launch of Google Local out of Beta and Google Maps, one would have to wonder why Google isn't using their own API's to show the data instea of using a flash based program.
Oh and there's some darned good stories to go along with those cards *ponders* ok, *starts fire to them*
My college residence uses keycards for their dorm doors.. I have about 30 sitting in my closet.. wonder if I should return them or destory them
What's revolutionary about it? Simple, its revolutionary compared to what Microsoft has been providing before the Vista release. Sure, Microsoft has borrowed ideas from various other OS's, but what's revolutionary about those OS's?
Ok, I've been to Italy before, but why is it that we have high resolution images of this area, but yet, a simple Southern Ontario location (2 hours west of Toronto, yet alone most of Ontario) http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=43.886140,-81.31093 0&spn=0.043135,0.081050&t=k&hl=en still doesn't have an equivalent zoom level? Is it that we're just cannucks or what?
Microsoft is a major player in software technology. While they're a debate amongst people as to what good they've done to the software world, or what they've done wrong to the world is to up for debate. $100 million in advertising isn't worth the cause, other than awareness. Windows Vista is a big step forward for Microsoft. They're finally saying "lets forget about the small people" and push something "revolutionary". Look at Apple, do you know many people still using Mac OS 7.5.1? sure, there's a handful, but I can name you more than 100 users that I still know using Window 98. Microsoft has to stop saying that they need to continue support for those users. Irregardless of that, if you're buying a new PC once Vista is on the shelf, you're guaranteed a copy, but will it convince people to stop and buy a new copy? No. People are content with what they have. Irregardless of what you have to say about Win9X/ME/200x/XP, they're decent operating systems. But having to upgrade my whole system isn't worth it. Whether people choose to embrace Vista like they did 95 is to remaian to be seen. Will you upgrade to Vista because you're forced to, or because you want to?