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October 7th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Great idea! Hope to see more adoption of Splashtop as time goes on. Having instantly available Skype would be useful.
October 7th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Lets hope this becomes something useful, why not allow mounting of disks etc? that way when I replace “splashtop” with my own linux distro I can have instant access to all the software I want!
You should have used linux bios as well
October 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
This looks like a brilliant idea and I hope it’s embraced by a few manufacturers. Not only does it help promote Linux it gives me something I can guarantee I would use.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I have this already. I call it “leave the computer on.” Whenever I want. I can instantly access the web and skype. Of course I can instantly access EVERYTHING.
Now, if you could only enable my laptop to turn on instantly when I open the cover! Oh, wait… I forgot about sleep mode with auto-resume. Oops - nevermind. I guess i have no need for this.
Got any ideas for your next start-up? Hopefully you didn’t invest your own money…
October 9th, 2007 at 7:57 am
good idea:) it would be cool if the OS could be started in the background. So i could read news etc. while my OS is starting.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Hopefully it will consume less energy compared to a normal computer. I would prever a Firefox-Computer. For 90 % of my work I use the internet. What I would need more is to store some data on an USB-Stick. Maybe the design of the good old commodore C64 will return - a “thinking” keyboard with a standard-interface like USB, onboard wireless and some more RAM..
October 10th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Sounds great, the problem is adoption, you see something you want but have to wait for the big names to start building it in, either that or build your own pc. I prefer my laptops though and as yet you cant just go build one of those ya self. Looking forward to playing with this, any chance of a flash demo so we can see what to expect? I like the idea of havinig access to the USB pen drives so that you can surf the web but put anything of interest onto the pen drive
October 10th, 2007 at 6:43 am
[...] pressing ‘Power On’. The Splashtop site has a decent FAQ, and even a blog-post with a YouTube vid demostrating the OS. I’m not sure this is definitely the exact technologies the RM machine is using because [...]
October 10th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Looks like re branded firefox which is good, Hope u put in flash and java plugins or the browser is useless to most people. you should use a more open IM like pidgin or kopote, that has more support for more services (I.E. aol yahoo msn and the like ) being able to save to a usb or flash would be good to, access to the files on the hard drive would be a good idea to. All in all seems like a good idea, i could see it being used more on laptop to save power, done rambling…
October 10th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Long awaited and very nice project indeed !
Should we hope for a mail client in the fast boot (thunderbird??) (even if it might be complex to deal with the content itself .. in what filesystem and so on…
Another mighty functionnality would be to virtualize the choosen OS to be booted (a la VMWare…) allowing simultaneous full linux (on the same EXT partition as splashtop ?) , a windows, and even the unallowed osx
regards.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Hey Doug (#4) - I appreciate your commentary, however, we believe that you shouldn’t have to put your computer in a “mode” to turn it off. We think computers should work like every other appliance and you should be able to turn it off and on quickly. Most people leave their computer on 24/7. What a waste!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Woo hoo! I would give this technology the Nobel over the mini-hard drive. I see just one step between this and no need for an OS at all. Many of my clients simply don’t need an OS especially with Web 2.O
Congrats Asus and Splashtop!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:01 am
But what aboit apps?
There is more to using a computer than surfing the net?
What if i want to use Firefox and it’s extension as my browser?
What if I want to install the Gimp?
Of what if Windows users want to install games like Cubis 2, Spore,etc?