Out of curiosity where are you based? 2011/7/10 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@xxxxxxxxx> > Well said Madhurya Kakati, > While ipads, iphones, sony vaio, Hp... lenovo... have they > share in the market of people who buy it because have money to do > so, there are 10X more people that can only buy a celeron 3300 notebook > for US$50 dolars/month. > > Some months ago, the woman who cleans my home (Maria), have bought a > notebook > and I install archlinux for her for free, she said she went to work in > another > home (not mine) and the owner have a "super" notebook. They compared the > graphics, sound, wifi , image, speed, easy of use, of the US$50 with the > US$3000 one > indeed Maria's have the same speed, never breaks, have better wifi > (wicd), and 3G access was faster. > > For the curiosity, 3G access in Linux is much faster (about 6Mbits)... > just because > it does not use the "driver" that comes with the modem. So I guess > that the > speed limit is in the "driver"... > > Maria said she, her husband, son, doughter, all use the Notebook, it > never loose > anything, and is rock stable.. She is proud of using Linux... > > Sergio > > > >
