Yes, the last one you posted made me think of that movie and Gulliver's Travels pretty instantly. They're nice. Odd and quirky to have come from MS, but nice.
My guess is that they're an inside joke / prank from one of the team members.
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Yes, the last one you posted made me think of that movie and Gulliver's Travels pretty instantly. They're nice. Odd and quirky to have come from MS, but nice.
My guess is that they're an inside joke / prank from one of the team members.
FCP obviously belongs to the category that 99.9% users dont use
its same gpu as first gen MB, Intel GMA 950.
ahh righto then. yes FCP is rather a niche market
the beta/pre-release version that i tried looked much more resourceful then vista - even under parallels it was fast and responsive! it still uses quite a bit of RAM though and the visual features of it are a bit in-your-face IMO, im not that fond of those.. (roll back to xp themes
)Looks like a kids background to me?
yup pretty much, i sure hope they arent trying to target kids for this OS
that would just be rediculous
ahh righto then. yes FCP is rather a niche market
My impression of having used the Atom is that it honestly would do the job of a lot of home computers and particularly a large swath of the corporate desktop (particularly the many people who use MS Office, a web browser, and hardly anything else) quite well, just as it is (without even waiting for an improved dual core version).
Systems like the Eee Box have other advantages for this kind of use -- they're tiny, one needn't pay for things like optical drives that many corporate users don't use, etc. And they consume a tiny amount of power compared to the desktops that are typically on those desks.
I'm curious to see how Win7 and the Atom line get along -- I haven't tried it.
very good point. being quite a heavy novice user (i.e. multitasking a LOT) and never having used the Atom chips (except in the shops-where i found them to be pathetically slow) i dont think that the Atom is for me - but for, as you said, a large majority of business users it would be perfect! the costs compared to buying the larger PC boxes would be very tiny (1/2 to 1/4 of the cost). most businesses would already have the monitors, keyboards etc so all they would have to do is pay ~$300 for the basic stuff and wala!
those things would cut down on costs yet again, making them all the more realistic for those sorts of markets
wsj has an article on it today, and i haven't see anything negative about it. http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-All-netbooks-will-run-any-Windows-7/1240258328
im a bit worried about my games, which don't run in vista, probably wont support win 7 as well.
... well, i will wait and see.
judging from my small experience - vista program support is basically that of windows 7..
Yeah it's interesting, and from what I can tell it's integrated like Classic used to be in OS X. That still seemed to work pretty well to move people across to X
Yeah it's interesting, and from what I can tell it's integrated like Classic used to be in OS X. That still seemed to work pretty well to move people across to X
aahh good old windows.. always behind the times and still stealing ideas from other people