I just bought a Lenovo S-10. I already have an R40 I bought in 2002 and it still runs. I have owned an APPLE ][+, way back in 1981, I once owned an Osborne, I had an Amiga, then a vanilla PC, a Zeos laptop in '94 (205 meg of HD space, a 30 MHZ CPU, B&W display. I have used Unix when I worked for Wang Labs, and for Xyvision. I know longer program. XP works fine for me. I have no need to go to LInux or one of its variants. I do not need a Macintosh. Even if Macintosh is " better," even if Linux is better, when the business world, and most of my colleagues, and everyone in my company is using XP, it makes sense to use what everyone else uses. Sometimes a decision is based upon expediency and not technological elegance. On my personal machine, I use Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird (and Opera and Chrome). I do not play games, or do graphics. It is puerile to attack someone because they use the existing dominant operating system. Yes, we all still remember our rebellious 20 something days when the evil Redmond hegenomy was to be attacked, and we went to work in t-shirts and torn jeans, but, I am looking forward to my XP running S-10 netbook. For the tasks for which I use a computer, XP is adequate.
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I just bought a Lenovo S-10. I already have an R40 I bought in 2002 and it still runs. I have owned an APPLE ][+, way back in 1981, I once owned an Osborne, I had an Amiga, then a vanilla PC, a Zeos laptop in '94 (205 meg of HD space, a 30 MHZ CPU, B&W display. I have used Unix when I worked for Wang Labs, and for Xyvision. I know longer program. XP works fine for me. I have no need to go to LInux or one of its variants. I do not need a Macintosh. Even if Macintosh is " better," even if Linux is better, when the business world, and most of my colleagues, and everyone in my company is using XP, it makes sense to use what everyone else uses. Sometimes a decision is based upon expediency and not technological elegance. On my personal machine, I use Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird (and Opera and Chrome). I do not play games, or do graphics. It is puerile to attack someone because they use the existing dominant operating system. Yes, we all still remember our rebellious 20 something days when the evil Redmond hegenomy was to be attacked, and we went to work in t-shirts and torn jeans, but, I am looking forward to my XP running S-10 netbook. For the tasks for which I use a computer, XP is adequate.