Acer Netbook Will Dual Boot Android/Windows XP
by Stormy Beach
on 29th Jul 2010 -
According to a recent release by DigiTimes, Acer is going to be showing off its 10.1-inch dual boot netbook at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show scheduled for August 5th – 9th. According to industry sources, it will be the first Dual boot OS netbook to hit the Taiwan market. The pricing isn’t too bad either considering it’s Android and Windows XP. Here’s what you’d be looking to spend for the Acer Aspire One: AOD 255, US$370 or NT$11,900 overseas.
How would you like to officially buy a netbook that dual boots to the OS of your choice?
Source: talkandroid and DigiTimes
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2010/07/29 at 10:26:59
Yes please! Manufacturers pay attention this is the correct way of doing things +1 acer
2010/07/29 at 13:07:38
Isn’t it illegal for a monopolist to strike deals that pressure distributors to include their product? Perhaps Acer had a strategy that but for the contract terms with the monopolist would be superior to Acer. The extra memory space could be used for other things to further enhance android or supply different options (instead of monopoly XP). Hardware specs could be different if there were lower software “requirements”. And Acer downplaying the monopolist product would give future pricing leverage to Acer (were it not for the monopoly that already tilts the field significantly in that direction).
There is a monopoly tax being levied here on all consumers and competitors. It makes it difficult for really low cost products to be produced by some of these vendors that already had high volume business with the monopolist. It limits competition and unique product choices.
I hope someone else besides Acer will be able to get justice against Microsoft monopoly abuses and build computers that allow the main Linux OS to use device byte storage space to hold more applications, data, or even as temporary free space necessary to enable remixes of the Linux distro for personal consumption, sharing, or business support.
It should be business practical for an otherwise capable vendor to produce both a dual boot version for those that want that as well as a lower cost and more flexible version focused on Linux (eg, android) and other open source.
2010/07/29 at 13:50:41
This pleases me