atw: Re: Windows-free at last.
- From: Evan Read <eread@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:39:32 +0800
Windows and Mac OS shouldn't require a lot more, provided unnecessary drivers
are not installed. For example, Mac OS X
10.5 installed 3.1 GB of printer drivers by default. It meant that all
supported printers would would out of the box, but
wasted space.
In the new Mac OS X 10.6, the default is to not install these drivers. When
you connect a printer now, you can run Software
Update (like Windows Update) and the required driver is pulled off the
internet. I believe that Windows 7 is the same when
compared to Windows Vista. In the case of Windows 7, these and other examples
of disk space efficiency are designed to
make Windows 7 more attractive to the Netbook market.
Unlikely you'd get down to 4GB though.
Evan.
On Thu Nov 5 11:07 , Write Ideas <writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent:
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>Well that's the recommended minimum.
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>The bare minimum is 4Gb.
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>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements
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>Cheers,
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>Micky G.
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>Write Ideas
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>http://www.writeideas.com.au/
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>On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 07:53 +0800, Rebecca Caldwell wrote:
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> Wow, that’s impressive re: the disk space required!
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