Comments on: Pondering a Netbook

By: Alfred

Alfred — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:24:51 +0000

Hey, good choice of computer! A friend of mine recently got that computer, and it’s pretty nice. Easier adjusting to the computer, since it’s not as cramped as the 8.9″ versions. Hope it ,meets all your expectations though, heh. Sometimes I regret not getting a 10.2″ netbook….

By: Deas

Deas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:27:14 +0000

I’ve just ordered an Eee PC 1000HA, and I’m upgrading it to 2 GB of memory. It comes with Windows XP on it, so I’ll just install Ubuntu next to it and have a dual boot machine. Easily done with GRUB. I’m stoked. Now if it’d only get here…

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:22:38 +0000

Let me tell you why you want to try and run Windows Vista on one of these machines if possible.

You will soon be able to buy one of these:
http://www.penandfree.com/

I went to an investor proposal here in Japan (my wife was translating from Korean to Japanese for the business presentation) and this was the product. What it does is turn any standard monitor into a touch screen. It only costs about $80 USD. Pair that with a cheap machine and you’ve got an affordable tablet PC! I got to play around with it at the meeting, and it’s sweet. There’s no delay on the input.

(I should be practicing what I preach but, unfortunately, I don’t have any free cash at the moment…) They told my wife and I that they’d send us the product free as a thank-you gift, so hopefully it’ll get here soon and I can tell you more about it!

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By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:53:07 +0000

Thought you might like to see this link
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49297248,00.htm

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By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:44:50 +0000

I've been avoiding looking at these determined not to jumpin too early (my first generation tablet has been mostly in a drawer since MS screwed the tablet OS in '05) but now they really look like the perfect thing to have while traveling around and even just to have some portability in the house. Damn you, sir, damn you! hehe Btw I've tagged you for a meme in my latest post (Nick tagged me first so it's his fault lol) Danielles last blog post was: Tagged! Five Things about me Meme

By: Jonadab the Unsightly One

Jonadab the Unsightly One — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:07:35 +0000

I've not heard anything bad about Linpus Linux Lite, but I haven't heard anything good or neutral about it either. I've never heard of it at all. I keep myself fairly... acquainted... with the Linux community, so that probably means it's not a particularly well-known distro, and the size of the community may be limited. Then again, according to Wikipedia it's based on Fedora, which is quite well-known, so you may be able to get some help from the Fedora community if you run into stuff you don't understand. I haven't used Fedora myself (the last rpm-based distro I used was Mandrake 9), but Fedora is extremely common, a quite popular choice, with a large user community. Jonadab the Unsightly Ones last blog post was: The economy: near death, or cuts and scrapes?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:24:00 +0000

Nevermind what I said, I seemed to miss that in your original post. Great reading skills huh?

If you pick one of these up, do please post a review on your website. I’d love to hear more about the EeePC.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:20:58 +0000

I thought about getting one of these when I had some plans for traveling at one time. It looks like the perfect type of computer for light computing on the go.

I think you’re going to have to buy outside of Japan though. When I looked into this back in May, the higher-end models were the only thing available, and there was no Linux model available in Japan either. That may have changed, but definitely verifiy that.

I did read reports that it isn’t a very rugged machine. But then again, for that price, what would you expect?

By: Deas

Deas — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:45:53 +0000

Alfred – Thanks! I will take a look at the Acer Aspire One series. Looks pretty similar, here. The only difference I can spot immediately is that the Acer has 16 GB, while the Eee 901 would be 20 (granted, split between 2 SSDs). And the Eee PCs have SD support, as well. That memory expansion thing isn’t hugely important to me – space is space, no matter what it’s recognized as. Ha ha. But this is great information – I’ll definitely follow up on it. And cheers for adding me to your reader!

By: Alfred

Alfred — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:33:15 +0000

I have your blog on my Google reader, and couldn’t pass up putting a comment (or advice, whichever way you take it) about which computer to get.

Take a look at the Acer Aspire One series. They have SSD and HDD versions, but you’re leaning towards the SSD version, as it seems. They run Linpus Linux Lite, which I haven’t really heard anything bad about. A good part is that it has “memory expansion,” which is, if you insert an SD card into the memory expansion slot, the computer recognizes it as additional space, and adds it towards your total memory. If anything, here’s a link at newegg, you can always check it for yourself.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115508

I hope this helps!