Mapping form factor

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 08:43:09 PDT 2009


2009/7/2 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>:
> laptop vs. <other> is a form factor decision.
> Desktop vs. server is a use case decision.

True...

> While you can generally assume a 3U rack box or a blade is a server
> of some sort, it's much less clear for the 'desktop' form factors -
> they can just as easily be a 'server' sitting in a closet.

So, would a "is-laptop" property make more sense? In this way we can
stop talking about "Computer is low" and start talking about "Laptop
is low" in the UIs.

Richard.


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