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Thread Author: Iffy Replies: 5
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 Sun 12 Dec 10 10:22 
 One netbook, two operating systems - Iffy
There's an Aspire netbook featured on the QVC shopping channel today.

Looks fairly standard spec, apart from having two operating systems - Windows 7 and Android.

The channel's expert says Android is there for fast boot-up to email and the net.

Do computers routinely have more than one operating system?

And does having Android as well as 7 make any sense?


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www.trustedreviews.com/laptops/review/2010/10/29/Acer-Aspire-D255/p1
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 Sun 12 Dec 10 10:26 
 One netbook, two operating systems - Zero

>> Do computers routinely have more than one operating system?
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>> And does having Android as well as 7 make any sense?

Dual boot systems were common at one time. Its pretty common for a linux (android is linux basically) system to be able to able to boot Windows.

Its used for all those times when Linux is useless.
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 Sun 12 Dec 10 13:18 
 One netbook, two operating systems - Stuartli
Isn't Android used on smartphones?

See:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29
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 Sun 12 Dec 10 13:20 
 One netbook, two operating systems - RattleandSmoke
It is but I believe it can run on the x86 platform. I imagine on this netbook the Android operating system would be stored on some kind of ROM chip.

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 Sun 12 Dec 10 13:22 
 One netbook, two operating systems - Zero
Android is just cut down unix - sorry Linux - with a different interface.

Its probably a distro called "cream cake" or "frozen prunes" if you are a linux geektwat.
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 12 Dec 10 at 13:24
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 Sun 12 Dec 10 13:40 
 One netbook, two operating systems - John H

www.techspot.com/news/40572-acer-netbooks-to-dualboot-between-android-and-windows.html

" it seems the company is furthering its commitment with Google’s mobile platform in its native Taiwan, where it reportedly plans to adopt the dual-OS approach to netbooks as a standard on all models sporting a dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor.

The idea is basically to use Android as an Instant-On operating system which can be quickly booted for common tasks, including multimedia, email and browsing, while Windows remains the primary operating system to perform a wider range of tasks. "
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