[Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?

[George Prowse]

Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:40:02PM +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Martin A. Brooks <martin at antibodymx.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>>       
>>>> However, I'd say this, for highly customised OS's on specialist hardware
>>>> like eeepc its just right.
>>>>         
>>> The EEE isn't specialist hardware, it's very generic x86 kit.
>>>       
>> I would agree with Karl L. I think it is specialist hardware.
>>     
>
> I think this is a very hard point to defend considering all the
> standard components that are present.
>   
The standard components are there, they are just in a different form. If 
it wasn't then people wouldn't be making a fuss.
>   
>> A 7 inch screen and a SSD is not really generic when you look at
>> all the other trillions of 14inch notebooks with 120Gb drives on
>> the market.
>>     
>
> This is not a technical point you're making, you're just saying it
> looks different.  The screen is a standard graphics controller and
> the SSD has a SATA interface.  It's run of the mill.  SSD itself is
> a very mature technology now; it's hard to say that it's specialist
> when the wear levelling is happening in the controller and the OS
> just uses SATA exactly the same as with any other disk.
>
> The eee pc is not particularly revolutionary in terms of
> architecture, only in construction.  It isn't even a non-i386
> platform.  It doesn't really require anything in the way of OS
> customisation except for preference stuff, which was the point being
> made.
>   
It's specialist in the way that most people wouldn't use it as their 
main computer where I know lots and lots of people just have a Sony Vaio 
on their table because they dont want the clutter of a desktop and want 
the mobility of a laptop.

Whichever way you look at it , the eee PC is different, it's niche, it's 
whatever adjective you want to give it but it is not "standard" or 
"run-of-the-mill".