http://gadgetmix.com Gadgetmix reviews netbooks, notebooks and tablets Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/ http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:17:22 +0000 Paul Merak http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=9312 dailyfinance) that it actually DOES train the Best Buy Employees the 'important' differences between Linux and Windows Computers. Few Best Buy employees leaked the training slides on the web which depict the Microsoft's Anti-Linux agenda "Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007". They even go one step ahead and simply said "Linux is not safer than Windows" Our take on the aforementioned claims by MSFT:1) Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007:Linux may not be having the exact apps, but it has alternatives that do the same stuff. All that for free. For Photoshop, one can get GIMP. For Office, Openoffice and many others. There is even an app for syncing music with your iPod!Click on read more to read the whole article]]> http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/feed/ 1 http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/microsoft-and-intel-to-limit-netbook-screen-size-to-10-inch-for-windows-7/ http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/microsoft-and-intel-to-limit-netbook-screen-size-to-10-inch-for-windows-7/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 18:01:54 +0000 Paul Merak http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=5637 negative impact on the VIA technologies.This is also a BIG BAD NEWS for the netbook manufactures: There won't be any netbooks running Windows 7 that will have 11.6-inch screen size.Believe it or not, we all saw this coming. The netbook manufactures were getting a little out of control and had started releasing almost notebook-sized netbooks. Somebody had to put a limit over the screen-size and there is no one better than Microsoft for this job!]]> http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/microsoft-and-intel-to-limit-netbook-screen-size-to-10-inch-for-windows-7/feed/ 1 http://gadgetmix.com/news/sony-ericsson-to-cut-2000-jobs-worldwide/ http://gadgetmix.com/news/sony-ericsson-to-cut-2000-jobs-worldwide/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:38:15 +0000 Paul Merak http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=934 http://gadgetmix.com/news/sony-ericsson-to-cut-2000-jobs-worldwide/feed/ 0