Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 02, 2007 09:40 PM
>> A crap laptop is junk no matter what software you put on it.
Did you just start using a computer this year? Today's hot stuff is tomorrow's crap. I take it you buy your laptops yearly or bi-yearly. If so, understand you are in the minority.
A older laptop with Linux can run better than a new laptop with Vista.
Also, like others have mentioned, open source and formats has added value. The reason Linux is growing so fast is because adding value (and using others work as springboards) is possible and is routine. Having that flexible software installed opens up a lot more vistas than does Vista (talk about marketing to hide what is actually there.. a lack of vistas).
A laptop with Linux is a better value in a lot of cases (maybe not for someone that lives for the moment and erases the past every passing year) than the same laptop with Vista. This is why some people are willing to pay for inferior hardware with Linux, because the total value is competitive or better.
Anyway, the monopolist is losing its grip on hardware vendors and soon (like now) people will be talking about how a lot more new hardware runs well with Linux than with Vista.
>> The fact is I can run a workable Linux on a good quality laptop and if it doesnt support all the hardware (which is less and less the case), well windows will. Magic. Best of both worlds and I didnt have to join the flock and buy a crap laptop.
Windows doesn't necessarily run hardware that Linux doesn't (even new hardware), and it certainly doesn't necessarily run it better or equal (sometimes it does). Anyway, you make sense except that you forget that the end product depends on both the hardware and software. Focusing only on the hardware will have you miss out in performance in cases where Linux on a weaker laptop (assuming it doesn't run on the top one) performs better than Vista/Windows on the newest.
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Re:Your post does not make much sense
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 02, 2007 09:40 PMDid you just start using a computer this year? Today's hot stuff is tomorrow's crap. I take it you buy your laptops yearly or bi-yearly. If so, understand you are in the minority.
A older laptop with Linux can run better than a new laptop with Vista.
Also, like others have mentioned, open source and formats has added value. The reason Linux is growing so fast is because adding value (and using others work as springboards) is possible and is routine. Having that flexible software installed opens up a lot more vistas than does Vista (talk about marketing to hide what is actually there.. a lack of vistas).
A laptop with Linux is a better value in a lot of cases (maybe not for someone that lives for the moment and erases the past every passing year) than the same laptop with Vista. This is why some people are willing to pay for inferior hardware with Linux, because the total value is competitive or better.
Anyway, the monopolist is losing its grip on hardware vendors and soon (like now) people will be talking about how a lot more new hardware runs well with Linux than with Vista.
>> The fact is I can run a workable Linux on a good quality laptop and if it doesnt support all the hardware (which is less and less the case), well windows will. Magic. Best of both worlds and I didnt have to join the flock and buy a crap laptop.
Windows doesn't necessarily run hardware that Linux doesn't (even new hardware), and it certainly doesn't necessarily run it better or equal (sometimes it does). Anyway, you make sense except that you forget that the end product depends on both the hardware and software. Focusing only on the hardware will have you miss out in performance in cases where Linux on a weaker laptop (assuming it doesn't run on the top one) performs better than Vista/Windows on the newest.
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