Acer Launching Dual Android/Windows 7 Netbook 105
Barence writes "Acer has unveiled an Aspire netbook that dual boots Google Android and Windows 7. 'User demand is not there for [other forms of] Linux [but] we never give up. We adjust,' said Jim Wong, Acer senior corporate vice president. 'We introduce Android with the Windows OS, and why Android? Because it has the best connectivity built into the OS.' Acer has also talked up Google's forthcoming Chrome OS. 'Chrome can be a viable alternative to Microsoft's OSes for web applications on different mobile devices,' he explained."
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I've only seen it as a LiveCD, which you can get here. Havn't played myself, so not sure if you can install or not, but worth a look.
http://code.google.com/p/live-android/ [google.com]
Re:Wow really? (Score:3, Informative)
I have a thinkpad with ubuntu so I use Openoffice (3.1) a lot. My daughter is very happy with it for high school homework, but I honestly can't recommend it to anyone doing anything "serious".
I find that OO crashes a lot (thankfully file recovery works well), and simple actions like cut and paste (7000 lines of text, each 30 characters) lead to hangups where OO pegs the processor and nothing happens for minutes. By contrast, the same action is very fast in Excel. Good luck viewing a non-trivial powerpoint file. (Regarding my cut and past: Yes, after you kill and restart OO you can just save the file from the text editor and import it, but for some reason the word processor insists on opening it if the extension is ".txt". Arrggh!)
I want to like OO, I really do, but in my experience it's not for everyone.
Re:Other forms of Linux... (Score:3, Informative)
If you want a Linux only netbook you can get one
Unfortunately, it's not easy to find Linux-only netbooks. I tried buying an Acer Aspire One online with Linux installed; couldn't find one anywhere. I ended up buying the "Starling Netbook" from system76. Even places I'd bought a Linux Aspire One from a few months ago no longer carry it.
Microsoft has been very successful in shutting down Linux netbook sales, unfortunately.
Re:Wow really? (Score:2, Informative)
I use OOo daily on Windows and openSUSE and have zero problems with it.
I wonder if part of the problem is poor packages in Ubuntu. That is certainly the case with Kubuntu. I don't really borther messing with plain Ubuntu given how much I loathe Gnome.