I was actually very surprised at the level of uptake of netbooks as second computers in Europe. According to an IDC study, it is the vast majority of the netbook market to date. As to the implications for G1G1, I don't know, but there are some data kicking around bout usage that someone might want to explore.
regards.
-walter
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Ed McNierney ed@laptop.org wrote:
Walter -
I'm referring to the classes of end users who would use such a feature, as distinguished from the classes of developers working on it. I mainly want to be sure we don't slip into a debate over whose favorite desktop environment is preferred among the development community. I don't think that's happening and it sounds like a good discussion has begun.
I'm not sure this is an obvious answer, as these classes of XO users span both of your categories below. Part of this work is to address the needs of G1G1 recipients, who are more likely to be "second computer" buyers than the other classes are. And part is to address the requests of XO deployment countries; I've asked Greg Smith to collect the details from the field on those.
- Ed
P.S. I'm not suggesting that G1G1 purchasers are more likely than not to be second-computer buyers - I have no idea whether that's the case. I'm suggesting that an XO recipient who is a G1G1 purchaser is more likely to be using it as a second computer than an XO recipient who got one as part of a country deployment. That may only be the difference between 1% and 0.001%.
On 12/5/08 7:32 AM, "Walter Bender" walter.bender@gmail.com wrote:
Ed,
Who are the real users you are referring to? I just got back from the Netbook World Summit and it seemed to be universally excepted that there were two very distinct groups: those who purchase netbooks as second computers and those who buy netbooks as first computers. The consensus was these groups had different use models and expectations. In the former group, close to instant on seemed to be important (which most people equate with instant boot instead of better power management a la CJB's work) and familiarity with existing interfaces, e.g., XP. In the latter group, there wasn't consensus.
-walter
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:22 AM, fedora-olpc-list-request@redhat.com wrote: