Hi This looks a nice little machine , what do ya think? and it runs Linux www.asuslaptop.co.uk Barry
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 12:13 +0000, Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi This looks a nice little machine , what do ya think? and it runs Linux www.asuslaptop.co.uk
There has been a lot of discussion about this on IRC and at least one ALUG member has already purchased one. They look pretty neat, the only criticism I have is that the screen needs to be more screen with less border (more screen in size and resolution) and the battery life could be better. I have a rather tired Fujitsu P1120 which is almost the same size, with a better screen and a "real" hard drive and better (a lot better with the extended life battery) battery life. Unfortunately it has a much slower processor and a fixed 256MB of Ram. My example needs a new battery, hard drive and PSU adaptor and I am currently undecided as to whether to buy these bits or get the Eee
If it helps you decide, the Eee PC runs Windows fine, apparently: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/07/eb_eee_pc_with_xp/ :) Peter.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:53:06PM +0000, samwise wrote:
If it helps you decide, the Eee PC runs Windows fine, apparently:
Ollllld news ;) (and, dammit, it shouldn't run windows... see, this is why I want an arm based low powered laptop, quick enough to run my usual nuxy desktop and with enough memory to play in, but never to be able to run windows natively - ah well, hopefully gpe-image will compile for my palm this time - then I'll have something getting close :) Cheers, -- Brett Parker
On 09-Dec-07 12:13:37, Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi This looks a nice little machine , what do ya think? and it runs Linux www.asuslaptop.co.uk
Barry
There's an interesting-looking overview of this family on Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC Like some other accounts, however, it left me somewhat uncertain as to what is really the case now regarding the spec, what may be coming in the future, and what will definitely be coming in the future. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Dec-07 Time: 15:45:17 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Barrys linux mail <bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
This looks a nice little machine , what do ya think? and it runs Linux www.asuslaptop.co.uk
I saw some of those last Tuesday (I'll blog more about that soon) and it looks like a very nice little machine indeed. I've seen it advertised slightly cheaper for education, but that might have been a different specification. I think it was running Xandros, but the delivered configuration was trivially root-shell-able (in under 5s). So, who's got one and who's getting one? What's the battery life? I just got a 3 phone (with ssh and mail) instead of a new laptop because it was lighter and more versatile. I must be getting old... -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
I've been thinking about getting one since they were announced, but I've got to look at it next to my current laptop (A Dell L400) to see if it really is that much better. Matt -----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: 09 December 2007 15:51 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Asus Eee pc 4G Barrys linux mail <bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
This looks a nice little machine , what do ya think? and it runs Linux www.asuslaptop.co.uk
I saw some of those last Tuesday (I'll blog more about that soon) and it looks like a very nice little machine indeed. I've seen it advertised slightly cheaper for education, but that might have been a different specification. I think it was running Xandros, but the delivered configuration was trivially root-shell-able (in under 5s). So, who's got one and who's getting one? What's the battery life? I just got a 3 phone (with ssh and mail) instead of a new laptop because it was lighter and more versatile. I must be getting old... -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!
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