On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:29:43 PST, Thorsten Hirsch <t.hirsch at web.de> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how long booting OSol takes on a NB200? I just wonder, > why they officially sell a netbook with OSol preinstalled > (http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/). Well, actually I can't > believe they put all that huge software on a netbook with the slow atom > cpu! OpenOffice, Netbeans, even Virtualbox and SunStudio is on it! It must > take hours to load all that stuff on it! > Has anyone bought the netbook?
I can at least strongly assert that the hardware in the NB200 should be quite capable for day-to-day use. My Acer Aspire One (AOA110) is my primary machine, with an Atom N270 CPU, 1.5G RAM, and a 5200 RPM hard disk. It takes 50-60 seconds to boot to X - the boot process seems to be mostly I/O bound. An EEE 900a (901) with an Atom N270, 1G RAM, and stock SSD takes 40 seconds to boot to X. My main complaint would be that the Solaris Flash player is CPU-intensive enough that performance on medium resolution YouTube videos is very poor. Compiler performance similarly leaves much to be desired, but I've been using my netbook for development lately regardless, as it's the most convenient system with the proper toolchain. -Albert
