Apple: Netbooks Don't Deserve Mac Brand

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]raabscuttle[/nom]So... How many times does it have to be mentioned? Apple does not build computers; they have not for a long time. The contract with the same companies that make HP, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Sony, etc. (Quanta, Compal, etc, etc.). The laptop and desktop computer are commodity products - that is they are essentually the same on the inside, just the packaging and software varies. So, maybe Apple is admitting here that they can't get OSX to run on sub-par hardware (afterall, the Atom processor was designed for MIDs and phones - not laptops; that is one reason that they have half the performance of a Celeron). Me, I cannot imagine OSX (or Vista) running well on any slow, pokey hardware that they stuff inside netbooks.[/citation]

A student at work attempted to install autodesk inventor 2009 on an acer aspire one .... and except he made a mistake with the license system, it appears to work. He had to reinstall to activate though, and I didn't speak to him after that. But actually it appeared to run reasonably for such a rig. It did complain about screen resolution though. But it did better than I'd have thought.

 

[yohan park]

“We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk,”

Sure they do. It's just that with Apple's profit margin it would probably cost the end user $1000