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Entries Tagged as 'Laptop'

Real life Linux: The ASUS Eee PC 1000

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

For years, the mom-in-law had resisted getting a computer of her own. She just doesn’t like technology. Everyone knows the old joke about people who are so slow when it comes to using technology that they never managed to set their VCR’s clocks. She can’t use a DVD player.
Yes, I’m serious. Oh, I know she [...]

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Tags: Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Operating System

Why good people make bad OS choices

October 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I was looking for a mini-notebook the other day for my mom-in-law at a Best Buy when I happened to hear a senior sales guy telling a newbie the 411 on selling PCs. “You sell them either Vista, or, if you have to, point them to the Macs because those computers work. That XP stuff [...]

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Tags: Asus · Business · Desktop · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Mac OS X · Microsoft · Operating System · Windows

Ballmer says skip Vista

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Boy, I wish I’d been at Gartner’s Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. this year. That way I could heard with my own ears, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tell an audience of high-level business people that if they want to wait for Windows 7 to switch from XP, instead of going to Vista, “They certainly can.”
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Tags: Business · Desktop · Laptop · Linux · Mac OS X · Microsoft · Operating System · Windows

Which Linux makes the best business Windows replacement desktop?

October 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some of my Linux-savvy friends and I have been hashing out what the best Linux desktop would be for a SMB (small to medium sized business). Out of that conversation, Ken Hess came up with a list of ten best Linux desktop distributions that has Ubuntu at the top and Jason Perlow, while dividing distributions [...]

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Tags: Canonical · Desktop · Laptop · Linux · Novell · Operating System

The five best desktop Linuxes you haven’t tried

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the pleasures of Linux is that you can try out different distributions to see which one works best for you. You like Ubuntu, but you want to fine tune the desktop engine? OK, try Kubuntu with its KDE desktop then. Some worthwhile distributions, however, don’t get as much attention as they deserve. So, [...]

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Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Operating System