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When you compare it to Ms desktops there is a big reliability and usability gap. Yes, reliability with peripherals, graphics, USB, etc.
funny, no one I've given the thing to has noticed any differences in those items.. IF you are talking about the "latest greatest whatsit" well, that might be valid, but that is largely something that will take us a lot more work in the hardware community, something that seems to be alien to a lot of us. Especially when they look at you as if you are certifiabley mad to ask them to write you a nice whatsit driver , for free , please, and can you hurry, my kid has a birthday party and wants to play some silly thing on Thursday ( nevermind today is Wednesday) However before the next version is out there will be one or more choices of drivers and probably some nice programs as well for the whatsit! And plese don't say "well its not the hardware ;it works fine under windows version x" OF course it does.. MS pays folks to make certain it does work. It wasn't created for Linux, or even Mac... ( shudder) They have had the same problems w/ the latest greatest hardware for toys... since their hardware is so propietery. At least we have an advantage that once we get our stickly little paws on the item sseveral guys will go, oh it's just a foo here and a whatever else goes into drivers. and Soon... we have the whatsit as well. But if MS can't keep churning out new stuff, who is going to pay the OS UPGRADE price ???? I have one sister who upgraded her Windows95 os when she bought a new computer... because she wanted to use some new piece of hardware that wouldn't work under the old version... and that was just a few months ago... loyalty? Nah, she just never saw anything worth paying the UG price for til the new gadget showed up... I am giving her a copy of Xandros personal (courtesy of Linux-magazine.com) because it says it will resize her windows partition ( do all Linux distros? I've not heard of one that doesn't,but there must be one!) ;) It looks "cute and warm and fuzzy, and isn't as secure as I would like, but I'll be she wont get some nastly worm from using it... And in this case , that is just fine! okay, now I'm ranting, as well... it must be contageous.. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit it's just an afterthought; okay ? : When the chips are down, the buffalo's empty.