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Title: Splashtop
Post by: bloodline on January 17, 2008, 05:59:17 PM

An instant on OS that boots from USB Flash... it's about 11MB in size, comes with integreted web browser etc... It's based on Linux so have full modern OS features...

Makes you think, the place for the Amiga style OS has been pretty much filled.

Oh well... :-)

Title: Re: Splashtop
Post by: KThunder on January 17, 2008, 10:49:48 PM

i had to dig a little to find out much about it but it looks very interesting. i may be in the market for a new mobo soon this might be considered

Title: Re: Splashtop
Post by: Einstein on January 17, 2008, 11:39:27 PM

Well instead of the speed at which a computer/OS boots, I care about the speed at which a certain OS implements full memory protection  :hammer:

Title: Re: Splashtop
Post by: motorollin on January 20, 2008, 10:54:41 PM

Shame you can only get it with certain motherboards. But then I suppose that's how they made it so fast. I would be very interested to try it out. I'm particularly interested to see how competent the integrated web browser is!

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moto

Title: Re: Splashtop
Post by: HenryCase on January 21, 2008, 02:22:37 AM

@motorollin
Regarding the browser, AFAIK it's based on Firefox, so it's likely to be very competent.

There have been reports of Splashtop seen running on an Asus EeePC, which would make perfect sense (Asus is a putting Splashtop on a number of its motherboards, and it fits in with the almost instant on nature of the EeePC in general). If I'm going to get any device with Splashtop it will be the EeePC (probably one of the new versions announced at CES 2008).