Comments on: So Hard Just to Be A Star… http://www.adaruby.com/2006/12/22/so-hard-just-to-be-a-star/ Rich Dynamic Applications with Ruby on Rails Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:49:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Hendy Irawan http://www.adaruby.com/2006/12/22/so-hard-just-to-be-a-star/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Hendy Irawan Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:58:09 +0000 http://adaruby.com/2006/12/22/so-hard-just-to-be-a-star/#comment-87 Ariel, yeah, I agree. Hardware is always getting cheaper, and better in quality (at least in performance, not durability). Software doesn't always seem to be. They suck more (especially memory and CPU) overtime. Why spend too much money on these stuff, when you don't really know what good can it do to you? (if you invest on something you better know how it will produce money for you after that) I don't see how buying a $15,000 Vista-loaded laptop (and more $$$ for Office, Adobe products and stuff) will <strong>certainly</strong> give you more income than a $600 ordinary laptop with Ubuntu + all FLOSS software that you can get on the Ubuntu distro + the Internet? Ariel, yeah, I agree.

Hardware is always getting cheaper, and better in quality (at least in performance, not durability). Software doesn’t always seem to be. They suck more (especially memory and CPU) overtime.

Why spend too much money on these stuff, when you don’t really know what good can it do to you? (if you invest on something you better know how it will produce money for you after that)

I don’t see how buying a $15,000 Vista-loaded laptop (and more $$$ for Office, Adobe products and stuff) will certainly give you more income than a $600 ordinary laptop with Ubuntu + all FLOSS software that you can get on the Ubuntu distro + the Internet?

]]> By: Ariel M. http://www.adaruby.com/2006/12/22/so-hard-just-to-be-a-star/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Ariel M. Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:29:26 +0000 http://adaruby.com/2006/12/22/so-hard-just-to-be-a-star/#comment-86 I met someone's friend last saturday at a local computer store who works in Dell. I was just mentioning to a friend a real low pricer Acer laptop with 256 megabytes of RAM. The guy from Dell, who did not know 256 is enough for Linux and Gnome, mentioned casually: - That's not good! You need at least 1 gigabyte for Windows XP, and 2 gigabytes if you plan to run Vista! Even in Linux, you can never have too much RAM. But I am not planning on Vista anything for a long while. I have nothing against Microsoft though, I think they have a nice product and it's part of the price I pay for a computer. But when I can get a discount for a non-OS machine, be sure I will prefer a virgin HD and my latest Ubuntu installation CD. I met someone’s friend last saturday at a local computer store who works in Dell. I was just mentioning to a friend a real low pricer Acer laptop with 256 megabytes of RAM. The guy from Dell, who did not know 256 is enough for Linux and Gnome, mentioned casually:

- That’s not good! You need at least 1 gigabyte for Windows XP, and 2 gigabytes if you plan to run Vista!

Even in Linux, you can never have too much RAM. But I am not planning on Vista anything for a long while. I have nothing against Microsoft though, I think they have a nice product and it’s part of the price I pay for a computer. But when I can get a discount for a non-OS machine, be sure I will prefer a virgin HD and my latest Ubuntu installation CD.

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