Comments on: ASUS Addresses GPL Concerns

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By: HOWTO: Recompiling the Eee kernel to enable 2GB RAM support teasered @ Feed UP !!

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:17:31 +0000

[...] 701 chipset supports 2GB SO-DIMM RAM modules but the default Xandros Linux build does not. With the new move from Asus to offer the rest of the source code, it’s now relatively easy to recompile the kernel to add support for things. THANK YOU Asus! [...]

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Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:17:31 +0000

By: rbolt

rbolt — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:28:31 +0000

like to share this to all of you. was so pissed @the launching yesterday here at singapore. crazy asus staff place a huge Windows live logo right next to the eeepc picture and not even a single logo for linux nor xandros. i mean.. come on asus.. give linux enough justice for this machine!!!!

By: Seraphim

Seraphim — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:30:54 +0000

This is not relevant to GPS, but does anyone know if eee can cope with Google Earth? Would one of the owners like to try the most recent version?
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Just an idea…

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:02:35 +0000

Oh, come on Fadumpt, look, 200 quid, what do yo expect? So you plug a USB G3 stick in, is that such a pain? You want perfection? wait for an Apple version and pay 5, 6, 7 times as much. When you pay 200 quid buddy, you buy compromises.

By: JDP

JDP — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:20:48 +0000

Forget market percentages. THere is a reason Apple doesn’t sell a large number of units. THEY DON’T SELL IN THE HIGH VOLUME/LOW PROFIT CLASS. This is a very smart move. Apple can sell fewer machines and make more money by focusing on a specific market segment. Currently Apple sits on $3.5 BILLION, which is over 14% margin on the over $24 BILLION they brought in in ONE YEAR. #121 on the Fortune 500. They operate on no debt – they have massive amounts of cash reserves. Apple isn’t hurting because of a “closed” system. Market share means nothing when you look at the big picture.

By: fadumpt

fadumpt — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:28:47 +0000

Simon: it’s not just geek chatter, I have the same want for a simple notebook that I can pull out anywhere and just work. I also want a computer that if I decide a few months down the road that I want to add something to it, I should be able to. You say you are a normal user, what happens when you want to add a cellular modem to the EEE so you can use that cool new cell phone data plan you got just bought for internet everywhere…nope, you are stuck with an ugly USB device out the side of it…not quite “pull it out and use it anymore huh

Red Menace: do a bit of research before posting? sounds like someone else needs to do some research as well….PowerPC was a RISC based processor, x86 is CISC, RISC is obviously the better chip to have but Apple was a big buyer in IBM’s market (think massive sales of servers with the same chip that doesn’t need to be very fast at all)

I’m not entirely sure what you are getting at with those market percentages but then again i haven’t read Groklaw Reader’s post yet either, oh well…

By: Red Menace

Red Menace — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:58:18 +0000

…snip…”The original IBM PC, that I still have in the attic, was a success over the Apple productsâ€¦”…snip…

Poor control of hardware and software led to a business model doomed to failure. What retail IBM hardware do you see now? How about the same question regarding Apple? They bought back all their hardware licenses and never relinquished control of their OS. Now, they are probably the fastest growing sales of notebooks aside from Acer which is buying out Gateway.

…snip…”The number of successes that Apple has created on the side is really not many. “…snip…

I guess that beating analysts’ estimates of 2007 Q4 sales is not that much of a success. Nor is a 24% increase in Mac hardware sales in that quarter. Further, I guess a 34% increase in CPU sales from a year ago and 29% revenue growth in that same period is not much of a success either. Maybe because you don’t hold AAPL.

…snip…”Apple doing a i386 system is owing to the IBM open hardware format.”…snip…

Wrong. The change from CISC processors like PowerPC back to RISC (now Intel was Mot 68K) had to do with power consumption and heat production and Apples desire to compete in the fast growing notebook segment, whose sales currently exceed desktops, in the US anyway.

AAPL sells well because elegantly designed products not because they adopted a particular processor or “free speech”-based OS.

Asustek has a potential winner on their hands for the same reasons and for the right price point.

Groklaw Reader, put down the Kool-Aid and pick up a copy of the WSJ and do a bit of research before posting.