Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
DJA wrote:
All this makes me more and more glad that I bought an XO. It's
surprising how many people I've showed it to said "I was going to get
one of those, but...". Most of the others want to know where they can
get one.
It depends what you want. The OLPC is vastly underpowered relative to
the Eee PC at effectively the same price.
Depends on what you want. The XO was not designed for you. Or me. Nor
the market which believes there is no such thing as too powerful. It was
designed for a very narrow niche market. Much of that market has never
even seen a computer, and therefore their point of reference regarding
Power, is much different than ours. None of it's primary design goals
was to be a platform for bloatware.
So far, it runs all apps I need very nicely. I'm happy. And if the XO
was available on the consumer market, I'd buy another. Or two.
What I don't understand is why OLPC went with an AMD Geode. The highly
integrated ARM offerings from folks like Marvell have just as much
punch, better power consupmtion, *and* they're cheaper.
I don't either. There are multiple factors that go into buying
decisions. For instance, I know of two companies who designed products
around ARM CPU's who had to redesign their products after a relatively
short time because the chosen CPU model was discontinued.
Performance is only weak if compared with other platforms. Not if
compared with what the user need to accomplish. Power consumption,
however better it COULD be, is still far and away better than anything
currently available.
Unless, of course, they've been keeping a Windows option available for
quite a long time now.
-a
While MS has demonstrated it, so far, Windows on the XO is vaporware. It
doesn't exist in the wild AFAIK. I expect that XP on the XO will be as
useful as OOXML even if it is made widely available.
Nevertheless, from what I've seen/read of the competition, I'll take the
XO's hardware over any of the wannabe's any day. No doubt future
sub-compact models will change. But so will the XO. The version two
hardware is already in the works.
And just try reading one of those other mini's screens outdoors in the
daylight. Hah!
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~DJA.
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