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OOOPS I forgot it's google, perpetual beta products. But seriously Chrome OS isn't even close to ready.

I find these instant OS's to be pretty useless though. The first thing I would do is reformat the computer and remove the instant OS and install a vanialla copy of Windows 7 without all the bloat OEM's install. Need that precious hdd space for my programs and files, not a useless instant OS.]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
Excuse me, meego - ing to go somewhere else, to read more interesting news.

TechCrunch anyone?

Its what half the engadget articles are base and written on -.-]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
Intel hasn't produced a g'damned thing worth mentioning about, beyond their SSDs, CPUs. They tried teaming up with Mattel, and produced diddly squat. They created VPro, but so far haven't had much success with it (did you know they produce separate Core i7 and i5 CPUs with VPro?) They can't even get their own damned integrated GPU to work anywhere as well as - ahem - NVidia, and they called off their discrete GPU work. They have a health division, and hey, have you read about them in the news? Of course not; it's GE that's on the health care front.

Try as they might, they waste so much money expanding into things they have no expertise in.

But I love my Intel bunny suit guy and my Intel CPUs, that's for sure.]]>Jun 1st 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/MeeGo ≠ Moblin
MeeGo = Proprietary RPM Based Core (similar to Fedora Core)
Moblin = Ubuntu Core
It would have been nice if they had stuck to Maemo's underlying DEB format, but... whatevs.]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Moblin Is Not Built On Ubuntu. It has always used RPM officially.

There was a single release of Ubuntu with the Moblin desktop installed, and moblin-session is available from Ubuntu's repositories. (However, the one in Lucid's repositories has been entirely broken for about four months, so I would hardly call it supported).
There is a Fedora Moblin spin, as well.

HOWEVER, Moblin 2, as downloaded from moblin.org, has a standard RPM core.]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Well, I stand corrected! Thanks!]]>Jun 1st 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
That is what I think...]]>Jun 1st 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Something like a surface win7 media center combo. I would be more than happy to swipe and select music from the current layout]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
Not really necesary, Windows 7 can run already on low end processors like the Atom.

They don't need to make it 'slimmer', they just need to add a UI layer to it that allows for easy access to programs/the web. A simple program would do; just like how Windows Media Center allows people to use the PC on a tv, they can build a UI for tablets that runs ontop of windows 7.

Having basic functions like web, email, instant messaging, maps, calendar built into a UI layer would be excellent. But allowing access to desktop apps makes it even more powerful.]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
I'm putting it in a virtual box right now....

]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
So far up greeted with this thing
http://imgur.com/RdFjY.png
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hahahahaha ]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
It doesn't get better later on......

http://imgur.com/EjKDG.png]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
No MeeGo is the name of the combined Nokia & Intel effort. In due course they will have merged Moblin & Maemo. Now, its still tweaked Moblin for MeeGo for netbooks & tweaked Maemo for MeeGo for Handsets.]]>Jun 1st 2010 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
Mostly because I miss SquiggleVision(tm).]]>Jun 1st 2010 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Jun 1st 2010 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/Unless they plan on ultrathin, ultralight, cloud-based computers.]]>Jun 1st 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/
That's what i want to know as well. They can put these dummy OSes on ARM smartbooks if they want, but putting them on an x86-based computer defies logic.]]>Jun 1st 2010 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/future-acer-netbooks-and-tablets-to-run-meego/When MeeGo is fully evolved, it will cover most basic needs by basic users... but use a whole lot less batteries, a whole lot less CPU, a whole lot less ram....
So it makes good sense.

But sure I would prefer W7 aswell. at least for a few years, til MeeGo is a complete OS.

MeeGo might be the Linux dist. that actually makes linux mainstream.. win over the game manufactors...

In the future you all might say, why use Windows, when MeeGo, is so much faster and so much better for gaming.]]>Jun 1st 2010 10:29PM