Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:06 -0700, Joe Fleming wrote: >> I don't know that they are specifically targeting that market. I mean, >> most of the netbooks run vista already. Run over the Fry's if you >> don't believe me..... all of their netbooks on display are running >> vista. It was enough to make me not want to buy any of them, but I >> digress. I've read the m$ has claimed that the reason most of them >> can't is because of the lack of storage space, a problem that 7 >> clearly doesn't solve. >> >> As for the storage space, my Ubuntu install is using about 10GB right >> now. Of course, that's with an office suite, a webserver, a few >> websites, my email, a bunch of pictures and documents accumulated over >> the 2 years it's been installed (over 3GB in my home directory right >> now)...... that's kind of the same, right? I mean, kinda, right? >> >> For the life of me I can't understand how the hell they use up so much >> space for JUST the operating system! As an aside, I read that IE8 uses >> more memory that the whole of XP too. Crazy. > ---- > nope - yesterday, I just got an Acer Aspire One and it has WinXP. All of > the 'Windows' based offerings on Acer Aspire One are WinXP. Most of the > devices termed 'netbooks' offer WinXP or Linux... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks > > and for illustrative purposes, I got the one with 160GB hard drive, > shrank the base Windows partition down to 32 GB, there's a 5 GB restore > partition which I left alone, and partitioned the rest for Fedora 10 > which installed quick/easy from USB key. > > FWIW - on the Windows partition...I removed the trial version of > Microsoft Office, the included Microsoft Works, the addiction version of > MacAfee, installed HP Web JetDirect Admin, OOo 3.0, AVG Free, iTunes and > it's using 10 Gb...not that I plan on using Windows very much. > > In defense of Windows installations, Fedora isn't exactly known for a > light footprint installation either and I'll get back to you on the full > installation size later but I don't expect it to be much less than 6 Gb. > > Linux is running on my KVM/19" LCD at 1280x1024, wireless is working > (without madwifi crap) and once my media library finishes copying, it's > ready to roll. > > The thing rocks! > > Craig >
FWIW, I just built an XP Pro VM, and noted a few disk usage levels: .) base install (SP1) - 1.6G .) SP2 upgrade (incl IE7) - 4.0G .) SP3 upgrade (incl .net 1.1) - 6.3G .) restore points deleted - 4.8G That's with no applications to speak of. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
