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Originally Posted by warcraft

Mobile windows does run on non-x86 hardware.

Mobile Windows? If I recall, that's a completely different code base that doesn't even run the same software as real Windows. In everything but name, it's not Windows.

Originally Posted by warcraft

Why run a slow obsolete ARM processor when you can run a Core 2 ulv Tablet?

Show me one for $82, which is what I paid (on ebay, after newer models had come out, but still new in original packaging). Then show me how you can fit that monster comfortably into your pocket. If you can show me a 4.1" pocket touchscreen tablet with Windows that can browse the full internet by wifi, offers thousands of free programs (opera, pidgin, google talk, maps, feed readers, mplayer, realplayer, various simple games, etc), gets 8 hours battery life, etc for less than $82 with no tricks (no contracts)... well, I'm waiting.

Why pay a huge premium to run professional gamers hardware if you're not a gamer?

All that said, the biggest reason I use a linux tablet is that I use a linux desktop and a linux server and don't want to bother leaning something new. So I can understand why someone used to Windows would buy Windows. And on desktops and laptops above the extreme low end, I'll agree that Windows is actually cheaper than Linux (I end up buying Windows machines and just erasing Windows from them to save money, but that's risky since the hardware isn't always fully compatible).

[warcraft]

Both the old celeron and pentium processors are faster than that ARM processor. How are you running all those apps? That is a form of masochism.

Windows and Linux has about the same costs. You can actually get an atom based MID that is faster and runs Windows.

[moxosis]

You are using Ubuntu 9.10
- the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011.

Just wanted to see how it works.