[arch-general] Archlinux is for Maria too

[Victor Silva]

Out of curiosity where are you based?

2011/7/10 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio at gmail.com>

> Well said Madhurya Kakati,
> While ipads, iphones, sony vaio, Hp... lenovo... have they
> share in the market of people who buy it because have money to do
> so, there are 10X more people that can only buy a celeron 3300 notebook
> for US$50 dolars/month.
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> Some months ago, the woman who cleans my home (Maria), have bought a
> notebook
> and I install archlinux for her for free, she said she went to work in
> another
> home (not mine) and the owner have a "super" notebook. They compared the
> graphics, sound, wifi , image, speed, easy of use, of the US$50 with the
> US$3000 one
> indeed Maria's have the same speed, never breaks, have better wifi
> (wicd), and 3G access was faster.
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> For the curiosity, 3G access in Linux is much faster (about 6Mbits)...
> just because
> it does not use the  "driver" that comes with the modem.  So I guess
> that the
> speed limit is in the "driver"...
>
> Maria said she, her husband, son, doughter, all use the Notebook, it
> never loose
> anything, and is rock stable.. She is proud of using Linux...
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> Sergio
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