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2009/10/3 Michael Cheselka <cheselka@gmail.com>

Hello Brian,

> shared memory? Anyway, I am impressed! I guess that is contrary to what
> you found?

Huh? I said I liked it. I recommended it to you.

My main complaint is that these machines are not that different from
desktops, so why strip down Firefox and other programs?! It's
retarded to think netbook = pda. It's really an ultra portable
desktop. The main benefit is that you can use it off-and-on during
the day, wherever you are, instead of going to your desktop because
it's so portable; therefore it's always there with you. Regular
laptops are really desktops in a different form factor and have lousy
battery life( and hour or two) and weigh so much and are so large that
they are not really portable at all because you wind up leaving them
behind. The weight and size of a regular laptop are so discouraging I
have stopped carrying them with me and are only using them on my
couch, home bathroom, and in my bed.

Regards,
Michael Cheselka
650-488-4820

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:43, Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com> wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I installed moblin and I am really impressed. I boosted my Mini 9 to 2
> Gigs of RAM, and it flies. The whole interface is different. I installed
> the Dell/Canonical custom spin. It is built for the Mini 10v, but the
> from what I can see, the Mini 9 has the same specs. It's just smaller!
> It must be the SSE3 instruction set that makes things work so well. Or,
> maybe it is this extra Gig of RAM. I believe the intel 950 graphics uses
> shared memory? Anyway, I am impressed! I guess that is contrary to what
> you found?
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:31:15AM -0700, Michael Cheselka wrote:
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> I've used both and they're both great. Moblin boots incredibly fast.
>>
>> They both suffer from an urge to strip things down. I'm referring to
>> special compilations of firefox that are stripped down because you
>> "only" have 1GB of ram on a 1.6Ghz machine... Please people!!!
>> Give me the real firefox!!!!! It's so stupid. These are netbooks
>> not palmtops running with 128MB of ram on a 400Mhz low electrical
>> use cpus.
>>
>> Other than that complaint it's all good. There's no harm in trying them
>> both.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Cheselka
>> 650-488-4820
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 23:45, Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com> wrote:
>> > Has anyone tried it? Or any comments on it? I see that Dell is selling
>> > the Mini 10v with it.
>> >
>> > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-dell-deliver-ubuntu-moblin-remix
>> >
>> > It appears that it should run on the Mini 9.
>> >
>> > brian
>> > --
>> > Brian Lavender
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