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#50
Originally Posted by craftyguy View Post
Aparently you missed the part where I had said FEDORA was running on the N900..

Yes, FEDORA or ANDROID are more practical than Windows ****ing NT 4.0 from 1996. Yes, you read that right, you're prime example for highlighting what this device can do involves it running an operating system from 1996.

All I'm saying is your point might have been more successful if it involved an example of an operating system that is more relevant to 2010.

Oh and did you bother to watch Windows NT 4.0 boot on the N900?? All 10min of booting? and the fact that it cannot be used properly without vnc?

For the cost of 1 N900, you could buy at least 6 full-blown computers that are more than capable of running Windows NT 4.0.
Again, does it matter? Does any of that run on the iphone? Do any of those OS run the apps I need? No, so Android/fedora not relevant to me, but the fact that the 900 "runs all of the platforms" you mention, and the fact that NT, or poentially a more current WinOS, could run "more of what people are missing", make it more relevant, and puts it slightly ahead of the iphone as far as usefulness.

Running desktop OS on a "pocketable device" is the key, not cost of ownership. Yes its "old" but its "working", but more importantly could provide access and functionality not available on the 900 right now.

- Edit Office files
- Web access to Flash, Java, Silverlight? (nbcolympics.com? hulu.com?) content "that's not working now on the 900"
- Sling/HAVA support
- (your missing functionalities here)

Last edited by colnago; 2010-02-17 at 06:09.