On 2013-02-14 10:43, Alan Pope wrote:
On 14/02/13 15:06, j...@osml.eu wrote:
...and it's getting even easier, ne' the Chromebook. (groan issues
from
the collective group) But it's true. It Linux Jim, but not as we
know
it. A large percentage of the MS Windows using public have waken up
to
the fact that they don't need a 8-core i7, with a 2-gig video card,
and
SSD, and 16 gigs of RAM, and a big screened retina display to browse
the
web and read their e-mail. The tablet boom-bubble has showed many
another way. Microsoft no longer owns the end-user experience:
think
iPads, smartPhones, BYOD at work.
My wife teaches at a local school, and frequently gets homework sent
to her via email. One of the students sent her an attachment
incorrectly, somehow attaching something called a .gdoc file. I was
enlisted to help her attach the document correctly and took a guess
and typed up a tech reply to her asking if it was a chromebook,
turned
out it was. She described it as "a new laptop my parents bought where
all the documents are stored somewhere else".
Interesting to see the youth of today using Linux, even if they don't
know it :)
Great to hear that Chromebooks are starting to be used by the youth of
today. I know it's and old say, and not politically correct, but I
pleased to see a small start in removing the Microsoft nose ring from a
few of today's youth. Long may this trend continue!
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