These #s mean nothing without taking into account target user as you mention.
Do Nothing: This person buys device, installs a few apps and nothing else. (TARGET AUDIENCE) Minimal: These users install bunches of apps, certificates, pgp keys (SECONDARY) Maxmimum: Power Users/Devt who fully tweak device, custom drivers, conf edits, perhaps beyond restore-ability So for primary audience...what is prob' 30min. reinstall time isn't too bad. mike Gary Baribault wrote: > Yep, that's exactly what I mean, some people have put down 430$ (in > Canada) for a nice toy, and they can flash and restore in 20 minutes, > but most people (I think, and I may be wrong) have put down 430$ for a > fully customised device .. I'm not looking to be skewing information, if > i'm wrong, then I'm wrong, no prob, then Nokia is right! > > > Gary Baribault > Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GPG Key: 0x4346F013 > GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> I'm sure that some of the N800 owners can backup/flash/restore in 20 >>> minutes, but I would really be curious how many people take over 90 >>> minutes. >>> >> If you limit your curiosity to those over 90 minutes, you'll >> purposefully skew the results, which really isn't appropriate. >> >> I'm a 20 minute flash and restore kind of guy, back in August when I >> got the unit back from warranty service due to it's brick like >> behavior. Most of that time was spent watching TV while the unit and >> laptop did their work. >> >> However, it's possible that it's easy and short for me because I've >> kept things relatively simple on my N800 with a couple games, Gizmo >> Project, Quiver photo viewer and Claws mail being just about the only >> additions. I've configured about 20 RSS feeds and 4 weather stations. >> I've tested a fair amount of other stuff from Maemo, but then when I >> find it of limited value or unfunctional, I remove it to keep the >> clutter down. It seems to speed boot up keeping things simple. I >> gather it may also help the restore process... >> >> I guess the fine print is I've only recently started messing around >> getting Claws Mail up to full speed with filters and stuff, so it might >> be possible that I might have to spend some time fussing with restoring >> some Claws settings there from a restore, but then again, perhaps not. >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users@maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
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