It seems that almost all major laptop manufacturers are moving towards Linux Laptops these days. As everyone knows that the obvious reason for moving towards Linux laptops is the fact that it is relatively much cheaper than the laptops which comes bundled with Windows that too now Windows Vista, which seem to very overpriced at the moment.
But such a move to move towards Linux can have a negative impact too, as many of youngsters and even software professionals were not as proficient in Linux than that they were in Windows based OS, hence those would prefer to have the laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista rather than Linux.
It has its advantages too and that the main advantage is that of the price, as Linux laptops are surely going to bring down the price of laptops very considerably now. The other advantage is that of security which is said to much higher in Linux than that of Windows based laptops which were evident on many such previous instances.
Coming back HP is planning to introduce these Linux laptops in the second quarter of 2008. They are going to offer Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise which will be preinstalled at their factories itself and ready to use for the end user. HP is also going to rollover Linux PCs too in the very near future.
Although this is a good move but only time can tell on how successful are these Linux based laptops are!
As laptops are getting cheaper they are becoming a preferable choice for everyone and people are going for them but these cheap laptops are no good to run latest Windows from Microsoft known as “Vista”. Vista do come in different version but still minimum requirement for even the basic version is way much higher then required by Windows XP or any other operating system.
Any one who would like to use Windows Vista needs atleast 1 GB RAM for normal performance and 2 GB RAM for pure performance but cheap laptops do not come with this much RAM. They mostly come with 512 MB RAM or 1 GB RAM at the most. So any one who would like to use Vista and have a cheap low memory laptop would need to purchase or upgrade its memory which would cost some extra money.
Many big companies like Dell, HP, Acer etc are selling Vista ready laptops which also do not have enough memory to run it decently as it eats a lot of system resources. A lot of Vista users have already moved to other operating systems such as Window XP and other Linux based operating system such as Ubuntu as they do not require high system configurations as Vista do and are easily operational on cheap laptops.
Dell who sells more low priced laptops then its premium laptops has already started offering a choice in operating systems to its new low-priced laptops customers. Dell has received a lot of positive feedback from its customers for offering this option and many other companies are also looking to offer the same choice to their customers.
So if look at the overall talk and reports it would be easy to see that Vista has already been kicked out as people who are buying/using cheap laptops prefer to either go with Windows XP or some Linux based Operating System.