Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 303 from 2005/11/21
From: UK
@ironfist
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Asus is silently dropping Linux in favour of Windows.
Totally irrelevant.
Eee sold a
lot of units when it was Linux only and barely any hope of installing anything different. That is proof that you can make a profit and not have to be running Windows. It could happen again if you have the right product and next time it could be another OS...
If you are still not convinced, how about the Nokia N810 ? Nowhere as popular as the Eee but it's a very nice product, running
Maemo.
As much as I love MorphOS and my Peg, IMHO this market is drying up. EFIKA, SAM and older PPC Mac Minis are not powerful enough to be a main desktop machine and that is what most of the people who are willing to spend more money want.
Hardware direction is going towards embedded systems style; developers I have spoken to are turned away as soon as they think about how long a compile will take. I can't imagine they would accept developing on a host platform for a target.
