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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Leuty wrote: > It won't run Windows applications unless you install Windows XP on > it instead of the Linux OS that it comes with. You would get better > performance sticking with LInux and Linux applications. However it > might be possible to install Crossover Linux which allows you to > run certain Windows apps pretty well under Linux (earlier versions > of Office, Quicken). > Wine, and Crossover Office are offered I think. But see below. > I am certainly very keen to buy one. I can see it would be useful > for taking notes in meetings and lectures, and dealing with email > whenever I am within reach of a wifi signal. I think it is better > seen as a big PDA rather than a small laptop. I think it is a client. One keeps major resources on the network, which is now the Internet, and accesses them from wherever. Wine is on there, so some WIndows apps could be run in place, but that is an approach I'd prefer to avoid - better to run rdesktop, giving you access to a desktop on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server or the (even more) crippled version on an XP and presumably Vista machine which you own, rent time on, or are constrained to use for some specific class of activity. Meanwhile, for real work, you run a desktop onto your shared or sole Linux box back in the office, datacentre or home. nc is an application which seems to unify X, VNC and rdesktop so that may be an option - I found it complicated or obfusc when I looked at it, and already knew rdesktop and VNC well so I've not persisted, but paid support is available and it has a reputation for economical use of bandwidth. It has the look of good kit - buildable into other stuff. - -- A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHPe8nRtcsVjUuankRAkDOAKDMh0EGGLLFRwU01gt/g52iXyF5DgCg63hg GaoIlZq8zebifhxzYe6lVz0= =j9Iq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----