Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:16:52 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net PN5mm2kfpdxTf+dnTF3knuvqFpWkiwXgCGGalN2BRyx6KaTI5DeuELwYzM8mnHOu8BNT/Z3LNbX0eKZb5062yQ== NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="MD1fG5qhV0DGZ0fhnyY3DITDlSUBb6varPRTu5wUK43/2AzX321E/tf8EmL3JwcSQVyNj9w5BOgF97QAO9ZNd/lHSGR38GKVkQvB2en9eGKXY0qtfWidUnrDdqStGLmu"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:aetJd6bqtGZEgdbggSzxCoaiH7k= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4776 On 5/30/2011 4:48 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, BGB wrote: > >> sadly, Linux has not entirely caught up to Windows WRT making an OS >> which is solidly good either... > > Except Android is kicking Microsoft’s arse. on cellphones... not seen any laptops or desktop PC's with Android though... it is more mixed-bag with tablets though... I had remotely considered getting a tablet which ran an Intel Atom and Windows 7, but I am not certain about blowing the $300 on it... also, there is the question of what exactly I would do with a tablet, besides maybe use it like a wacom, that can't be accomplished with a laptop or netbook (which I already have). or such...