On 11/17/2013 03:45 PM, ron minnich wrote:
I've tried before with some of those guys They're not going to help because they are not designers. Below a fairly high level, they don't know what's in their systems. Sure, it's a nice shiny skin. But all the real work is done by the ODM.
Then what can be done?
This is a really hard problem. Google is the first company, aside from Linux NetworX, to really commit to a product that uses coreboot. It's been nice to see.
Is Google's plan with the chromebooks to enter the laptop market, or are chromebooks meant to create a new market? It they are meant to enter the laptop market, Google is doing it wrong, and I've never seen Google do things wrong.
It bothers me that so few people know what's inside their computers, but maybe it should not: most people don't know how their cars work either. Maybe the days of really understanding your hardware are gone.
It bothers me that Google is touting golf carts as taking you to work and back. Jokes aside. When 7/6 people have problems with fractions and 1 out of 10 people don't understand binary, how can one expect the majority of people to understand PC hardware?
Alex