On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:33 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:08:51PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > > I think eMachines sort of completely defined the concept of a large > > mass, single production run of specific hardware to meet a price > > point/distribution target - much as Everex has done here. > > > > It's an interesting approach to marketing and of course...no Microsoft > > tax - and they are trying to copy the Macintosh look/feel ;-) > > The Everex desktops and the Asus eepc laptops are redefining things, for > sure. This is part of the shift that's been occuring for decades. Most > people don't do much actual computing on their computers, and just use > them as thin clients, in a sense: web surfing, gmail for email, maybe > remote desktop to connect to their work system... > > My wife has a macbook, and she complains it's too heavy (!). She also > has a moto Q, which she hates (because it's truly awful). What she > really needs is something in between, like the eepc. > > Me, I need more horsepower, more memory, more disk space. I make the CPU > work pretty hard sometimes, and make all the fans spin up to full speed. > > We both use computers every day as part of our work life and home life. > But we are in radically different market segments. I want a computer. My > wife wants an appliance. > > The market segment my wife is in is very, very large. ---- heck with google apps, alfresco, jboss or ??? whose gonna need a fat client beyond a web device anyway?
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