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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
Ok, I only said that people would want Windows because in the beginning of the netbook craze, it was supposed to be Linux's day to shine, but then the consumers said "Why don't mah Windoz work!" And now everything has XP.
There is a big difference - ARM netbooks will have a different use case. You would keep an ARMbook always on, just like a NIT. Even if you *could* put Windoz on it, without optimizations, it would suck the batteries dry real quick and would feel a lot more sluggish than, say, ARM ubuntu, Maemo or Android. And then you get what - bad battery life and a bad user experience (which *is* a recipe for disaster).

In those terms, NOT being able to run Windows is an advantage, as there won't be a horde of people suckered to buy it hoping it's a supercheap Atom with longer battery life and then get seriously disappointed and generating a LOT of bad PR which in turn will damage the odds of the device succeeding in markets it *would* be good for, e.g. the Linux crowd.

I am going to buy a netbook for college, and it is going to be my primary computer (goodbye quadcore), and it better run Windows, OSX, or Ubuntu.
Well, a netbook is not really meant to be a primary computer, ARM or Atom or Via... But then, a budget is a budget...
 

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