Here's a better citation from 2012, just a month ago:
http://mashable.com/2012/11/26/touch-chromebook/
Sales have so far been so small that NPD, a research company that measures sales of electronics, doesn't even bother mentioning them.
Do you or the OP have any citation stating that the sales of Chromebooks have been hurting netbooks?
Also, does anyone even remember the Chromebox?
Chromebooks? Are you serious? They sold about as (or as bad!) as the Kin.
http://www.chromebookblog.com/2011/11/early-chromebook-sales-soft-reports-digitimes/
Acer had reportedly only sold 5,000 units and Samsung was said to have had even lower sales than Acer, according to sources from the PC industry.”
That's why Google doesn't release the numbers sold even now, just like for Google TV which had similarly pathetic sales.
Slashdot summaries are dissending into chaos.
Surface RT is $499, not $900. You're thinking about the Surface Pro, about which details are not fully out yet, but it is widely expected to have the ability to turn Secure Boot off.
What are you blabbering about? The Surface RT doesn't even run a single Win32 app which is at the root of the Windows' monopoly. The EC will just laugh you off.
Either the FSF is spreading FUD to mislead people like you or there are a lot of dumb people around foaming at the mouth.
The article, summary and you'r parent post are about the Surface RT ARM tablet, it has nothing to do with commodity hardware. You can buy any "real" PC out there, turn off UEFI secure boot and run whatever you want.
Very dubious, because I think I can prove historically security is not a hardware issue, it is a human issue. I am not pulling this out of my arse either, I can site a huge list of failed hardware security solutions, which DO NOT WORK
Huh what? Hardware based lockdown like what Apple has on the iPhone and iPad works very well for security from malware because it takes the casual user out of the equation. That's why Android has a huge malware problem while iOS does not.
Have you been asleep the past 5 years and just woken up or something?
Let me fill you in. Apple released the iPhone and iPad with locked down app stores and rejecting competing apps or sitting endlessly on them, They even rejected an Android magazine app. Meanwhile, Slashdot was more interested in bashing Microsoft. Now, ranting about MS which has a 0.1% marketshare in tablets just looks silly without mentioning Apple, Kindle Fire etc. which are shipping tens of millions a quarter.
Oh and by the way, Duke Nukem Forever was released.
Apple pioneered it and made it acceptable by implementing Palladium and the media and Apple fanboys smothered the opposition while Slashdot posters were more concerned with taking down MS and scoring moderator points with cheapshots rather than caring for user or developer freedom.
Yawn, the battle was lost with Apple long ago,
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110929014241932
Groklaw was cheering Apple on. They and their audience(just like Slashdot) seem more concerned on bringing Micrrosoft down rather than fight for true user and developer freedom.
Ghandi? Did you type that on your iPad?
I'm tired of Apple being used to justify shitty behaviour from Microsoft. In this case its no even true.
And I am tired of Apple fanboys giving a free pass
Wait, why is the Surface RT a computer and the iPad not? Apple made the locked down app store mainstream and acceptable in public eyes because the media was too obsessed with "ooh shiny". Go read some journalists rants on Palladium and watch them completely fold on the iPad and praise it like no tomorrow.
Get a retina Macbook or an iPad, Apple's hardware quality is superb.
so hung application produces pretty patterns on the screen when you try to drag your window, if you can even drag it at all.
This shows that people like you have last used Windows back in the XP or even ME days. Get with the times instead of wallowing in outdated criticisms.
You can't allocate a monitor connected to one host to become a part of the environment for other hosts, or combine multiple hosts with their monitors to show a single desktop, with applications spanning all of them.
This is soooooo useful to so many desktop users compared to the use case of extending desktop to another monitor on the desk without fiddling with multiple config files and utilities. *snicker*
And no, your stupid Terminal Services don't count.
Yes, lets discount actual working remote desktop over even dialup,and lets trumpet outdated technology requiring a LAN.
This is reminding of Slashdot's lame attempts and FUD against Windows 7 with the fake benchmark shit and false claims of DRM.
Seriously, I know several people who actually like Windows 8 better.
Watch a couple of videos if you're lazy and learn some shortcuts and it's a better Windows 7 at the worst.
How to use Windows 8 in 4 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi8NpwiEuzc
Windows 8 Tutorial in 12 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1UxI5I_jo
With your bare hands?!?
