Comments on: The Most Hated Company In PC Industry http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/the-most-hated-company-in-pc-industry Get Fresh News About Linux, Philippines and Everything in Between Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:16:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: kamotegirl http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/the-most-hated-company-in-pc-industry#comment-187 kamotegirl Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:05:06 +0000 http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/the-most-hated-company-in-pc-industry#comment-187 I totally agree with you. While other laptop manufacturers consistently following the trend of creating bigger, meaner machines, ASUS has come up with a great idea of going back to basics. :) I totally agree with you. While other laptop manufacturers consistently following the trend of creating bigger, meaner machines, ASUS has come up with a great idea of going back to basics. :)

]]> By: Paul R http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/the-most-hated-company-in-pc-industry#comment-186 Paul R Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:38:54 +0000 http://www.pinoytux.com/linux/the-most-hated-company-in-pc-industry#comment-186 ASUS EeePC is a small computer running Linux from a cost effective small solid state disk with ultra low power consumption. This is clever stuff, highly suitable for a mobile PC. In total contrast, Microsoft, releases Vista that requires 20+GBytes of disk and over 2Gbytes of main memory to be moderately effective. I can't see why Microsoft would be angry, for a long time they have followed a policy of bloatware forcing users to upgrade out of shear frustration with response time, and thus buy more Windows and Office licenses. Microsoft must have always known that, as the gap between what they offer and what is possible continued to grow, eventually someone would step in to exploit that gap. It is a choice they made, not ASUS. It appears that ASUS claim one EeePC is sold every six seconds. This is enough to interest software vendors in complimentary applications for this device and consequently small solid state Linux devices should start to leverage LINUX. Microsoft choose to give LINUX a huge advantage in low power consumption and consequently battery weight in the portable market. Small, ultra portable PCs must become increasingly important, so this is not a battle MS should lose, but they have set themselves up with a huge boat anchor called Vista. ASUS EeePC is a small computer running Linux from a cost effective small solid state disk with ultra low power consumption. This is clever stuff, highly suitable for a mobile PC. In total contrast, Microsoft, releases Vista that requires 20+GBytes of disk and over 2Gbytes of main memory to be moderately effective. I can’t see why Microsoft would be angry, for a long time they have followed a policy of bloatware forcing users to upgrade out of shear frustration with response time, and thus buy more Windows and Office licenses. Microsoft must have always known that, as the gap between what they offer and what is possible continued to grow, eventually someone would step in to exploit that gap. It is a choice they made, not ASUS.

It appears that ASUS claim one EeePC is sold every six seconds. This is enough to interest software vendors in complimentary applications for this device and consequently small solid state Linux devices should start to leverage LINUX. Microsoft choose to give LINUX a huge advantage in low power consumption and consequently battery weight in the portable market.

Small, ultra portable PCs must become increasingly important, so this is not a battle MS should lose, but they have set themselves up with a huge boat anchor called Vista.

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