Dave Miner wrote:
> C. Bergstr?m wrote:
>
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>
>>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Josh Meyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I saw on Slashdot that Toshiba will soon sell laptops with OpenSolaris
>>>>> pre-installed, and presumably fully supported. Any word on when this
>>>>> will happen?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> They made further details available this week at CES:
>>>> http://explore.toshiba.com/pressrelease/433653?fromPage=editorials
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I got a picture of it while I was there.
>>>
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_at_ces
>>>
>>>
>> I'm biased and not a big fan of Toshiba, but looks cheap and ugly..
>>
>
> I played with it for a couple of minutes at the booth; it seemed pretty
> good, though it's a comparatively slow processor, 1.3 GHz dual-core, so
> not a great development machine; you'd want the R10 for that instead.
>
The Tecra's seem to be pretty solid, and I'm happy with my M9 and the
M10 I've had a chance to play with. The Protoege model looks more like
a consumer model to me in the picture, though I've not had a chance to
play with it. If I were choosing a unit for myself, I'd choose an M10
(which is one of the units that you can get OpenSolaris bundled on.)
>
>> Maybe Sun can work with Dell to add laptops to their line..
>>
Notably, Sun isn't the one selling the laptop hardware. What's notable
about the release, is that Toshiba is now "selling" OpenSolaris.
It would be nice to get Dell to do the same, sure. And it would be nice
to get all of the laptop vendors to follow suit. But Toshiba is the
first company to do so, and they deserve (IMO) our support in thanks of
their support.
If this works out well for Toshiba, it might be that the other vendors
will follow suit.
-- Garrett
