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Wonder how fast it would be on the SSD drive itself :D]]>Jan 31st 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnSM6oTsqTY]]>Jan 31st 2009 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/ STAY AWAY]]>Jan 31st 2009 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/2. XP does not run well on all netbooks. For instance the 8 gig Acer Aspire One.
3. XP is not the answer to life, the universe, and everything. That's 42. XP isn't as great as it is made out to be.]]>Jan 31st 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/
The disadvantages of Linux are that it doesn't run Windows software and that the interface is shit (or at least patchy - i.e. it's good some of the time but then whoops! an unexpected task requires you to do something humungously complicated). The first isn't a problem on netbooks because they're not your main computer, so you don't need to be able to run every application under the sun. The second is why companies, including Intel, are building simplified Linux distributions for the purpose - and again, because netbooks don't require complex functionality, this is less of a problem.

So there are two reasons why Linux is important on netbooks. First because they are more price-sensitive; second because the disadvantages of Linux are less significant.

And it's not just about disadvantages. Moblin so far achieves 8 second boot on some netbooks and they're aiming for 5 seconds by the official release. How long does XP take to boot?]]>Jan 31st 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/31/video-moblin-finds-a-home-with-the-samsung-nc10/Jan 31st 2009 1:53PM