Re: H-P Testing Google Software For Budget Notebook PCs

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ng Pheng Siong <phengsiong () gmail com>
Date: April 6, 2009 12:31:15 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] H-P Testing Google Software For Budget Notebook PCs

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:09 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
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Hewlett-Packard is considering replacing Microsoft's Windows operating  
system with software developed by Google in some mini-PCs called  
netbooks, said people briefed on the matter.

H-P, the world's largest PC maker, has programmers testing Google's  
Android system -- originally designed for cellphones -- for a  
potential netbook. H-P hasn't decided whether to bring an Android  
netbook to market.

Dave,

This is nothing but jumping on the Android hype bandwagon.

Android's user environment is oriented towards a resource-constrained  
device equipped with touchscreen, GPS, accelerometer, 3G connectivity  
and such. Processes could be terminated (not swapped out) arbitrarily.  
A user application is written to a specific state machine that defines  
the flow of application states, and is expected to handle data  
persistence according to that state machine.

The netbook user is better off running a WIMP distro of Linux  
operating on the standard Unix process model. Or Windows, for that  
matter.




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