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| | The Linux Extremist » Blog Archive » Fires and Laptops and Batteries, Oh My! |
 | | The dirty little secret of the PC industry is that most users don’t need as much of the processing power and energy usage as they are presently consuming; the Windows / Intel cycle of creating an ever larger operating system which requires ever more processing power to use it is creating this situation. |
 | | Acorn PC, a defunct British manufacturer of RISC OS PCs, just had its trademark bought by another company; this firm has decided to offer standard Windows laptops rather than doing something really interesting and offering the low power, high performance PCs that consumer can and should get. |
 | | They’re going to see: Whizz-bang industry-standard PC, powerful processor, £700; or nearly-identical looking non-industry standard PC, processor they’ve never heard of, funny OS (even though I love it, and the fact that it isn’t Windows goes a long way to explaining why it’s good, that’s the thing - it isn’t Windows, and neither is Linux). |
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