It would be nice to see that happen on the East Coast. I'm currently in Halifax. there's a small Linux base here. I know of a Debian group that meets downtown every so often. Even my job I could see a migration to Linux work. Everything we use has an open source alternative, everything right down the the Cisco softphones (not sure if there's an *nix version).
I would embrace the change, if I didn't casually game on Windows I'd likely migrate myself.
Just like the original article it does state that it's not Circuit City it's Systemax. I've personally never dealt with Circuit City as I'm in Canada. the only thing close I guess was "The Source by Curcuit City" which basically was Radio Shack prior to that. Not being able to return unused printer cartridges doesn't surprise me much considering even Walmart won't take them back either. The other major brands HP, Compaq that kind of surprises me because you couldn't just take that fancy laptop back to HP or Compaq and get a refund.
... OEMs will not offer Windows 7 options. If netbooks are mostly for email, web, etc., who needs a particular OS? All seem to do those basics well enough (often with the same software ported around to fill the market).
Heck for email web im etc... I found that express gate built into my motherboard works fine. Any flavor of Linux would suit this perfectly. Even Moblin would work well. It certainly runs like a charm on my Toshiba Netbook.
I can't see this model working well. There's only a handful of games that are "decent" on the PSP. There might be some good titles trickling out this year. But this would likely work for some when the newer revision of the PSP comes out that does not have the UMD Drive.
I remember buying a 256MB usb flash drive for $80. Now they seem to be a dime a dozen. I just bought 3 4GB drives for $15.00 from Wallyworld just last month.
I ended up getting a Inspiron 9400 with the Geforce GO 7900G. After playing Bioshock the gpu fried. I called Dell and they tried to make me purchase a new LCD screen as they were insistent that was the issue for $500 as I also had no warranty left. (makes me wonder if it's related to the recent nvidia mobile chipset disaster). I could not make them believe it was actually the GPU that fried. So I went on eBay and bought an ATI gpu and got it working again. Glad it had a modular design and a changable gpu. But yeah, I will not buy another Dell either, and by the sounds of this I'd not buy Alienware either.
The RC is Ultimate so it does not have the 3 app limit. Although there's a hack that can be done to allow one to install the different Win7 versions.
I'm still using XP on my netbook, I'm a little skeptical with running Win7 on it.
It would really depend on the type of premium video and if I could download a copy and keep it. I hate to pay for things I physically cannot do things with. IE purchased music, I'll burn to a cd etc...
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It would be nice to see that happen on the East Coast. I'm currently in Halifax. there's a small Linux base here. I know of a Debian group that meets downtown every so often. Even my job I could see a migration to Linux work. Everything we use has an open source alternative, everything right down the the Cisco softphones (not sure if there's an *nix version). I would embrace the change, if I didn't casually game on Windows I'd likely migrate myself.
Just like the original article it does state that it's not Circuit City it's Systemax. I've personally never dealt with Circuit City as I'm in Canada. the only thing close I guess was "The Source by Curcuit City" which basically was Radio Shack prior to that. Not being able to return unused printer cartridges doesn't surprise me much considering even Walmart won't take them back either. The other major brands HP, Compaq that kind of surprises me because you couldn't just take that fancy laptop back to HP or Compaq and get a refund.
... OEMs will not offer Windows 7 options. If netbooks are mostly for email, web, etc., who needs a particular OS? All seem to do those basics well enough (often with the same software ported around to fill the market).
Heck for email web im etc... I found that express gate built into my motherboard works fine. Any flavor of Linux would suit this perfectly. Even Moblin would work well. It certainly runs like a charm on my Toshiba Netbook.
I can't see this model working well. There's only a handful of games that are "decent" on the PSP. There might be some good titles trickling out this year. But this would likely work for some when the newer revision of the PSP comes out that does not have the UMD Drive.
I love this idea as well, hell even Trivium is telling the fans to download burn & share.
Very true, since this has been likely the king of vaporware.
I remember buying a 256MB usb flash drive for $80. Now they seem to be a dime a dozen. I just bought 3 4GB drives for $15.00 from Wallyworld just last month.
I ended up getting a Inspiron 9400 with the Geforce GO 7900G. After playing Bioshock the gpu fried. I called Dell and they tried to make me purchase a new LCD screen as they were insistent that was the issue for $500 as I also had no warranty left. (makes me wonder if it's related to the recent nvidia mobile chipset disaster). I could not make them believe it was actually the GPU that fried. So I went on eBay and bought an ATI gpu and got it working again. Glad it had a modular design and a changable gpu. But yeah, I will not buy another Dell either, and by the sounds of this I'd not buy Alienware either.
My Highschool in 1995 was teaching university prep computer science on Apple IIe's programming with Turbo Pascal. Very fond memories indeed.
The RC is Ultimate so it does not have the 3 app limit. Although there's a hack that can be done to allow one to install the different Win7 versions. I'm still using XP on my netbook, I'm a little skeptical with running Win7 on it.
Is there nothing they will go after?
It would really depend on the type of premium video and if I could download a copy and keep it. I hate to pay for things I physically cannot do things with. IE purchased music, I'll burn to a cd etc...
I'm surprised that NT4 is still run. But then again I often see it running on older equipment in stores, call centers and hospitals I guess.
Chaos!
That place is not a place to work if you want gratitude. They work you like slaves. And you feel like a moron by the end of the night.