Me 2. While the price is attractive, the limitations are still a drawback. I am glad this thread came up because it is reason for me to resurrect one of my old laptops to do something similar. I still like my little Fujitsu running the Crusoe Transmeta chip - it only consumes about a Watt of energy compare to the 40-50 that even PIII use. So even with it's small battery, it is good for 6 hours of use.
I have heard from others that Ubuntu runs sluggish on it though a strip down version of xp seems to be fairly reasonable. I am going to look at DSL (Damn Small Linux) as it requires little resources to run. It does have a reasonable hard drive, vga output, dvd, etc. Though I paid about 1200 used 2-3 years ago and had maintained it's value for quite a while, recently I saw it for about 500. BTW, it weighs about 2-3 pounds, so fairly comparable and has wide screen - I think 1400 by 768. Out of the 2, the Fujitsu suits me better, however if it were around 250, it would be a really nice toy to have. If DSL works, I will be a very happy camper. Mark Carlson wrote: > On 11/2/07, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> To the people that have already purchased one of these, >> >> Do you think that the Eee PC offers good value for money? If so, why? I >> must admit that they look attractive and if the price point was around >> $250, I probably wouldn't think twice about buying one. The $400 price >> seems reasonable, but I was looking at laptops awhile back and for $400 >> you can buy a decent used laptop with much more horsepower, more RAM, a >> way bigger hard drive, and a removable media (CD/DVD) drive. If you're >> looking for something small, you can probably get a pretty nice PDA for >> the same price. So, I'm trying to figure out if these things are >> actually worth buying. >> > > I, too, am wondering some of these things... > The things that attract me most about the Eee PC are: (in order) > - Price < $500 > - Runs Linux > - < 1kg > - Full size keyboard > - Screen resolution is barely wide enough to read PDFs reasonably (I > think, haven't tried it yet) > - I can use nethack.alt.org > > The competition: > PDA: > - Price < $500 [possible, but doesn't get you to the rest of the > required features usually] > - Runs Linux [hard to find, if possible at all] > - < 1kg [oh yeah, even less than that] > - Full size keyboard [not possible without a bluetooth or IR kb] > - Screen resolution [I've tried reading PDFs on PDAs... it's not worth > it, even a little] > - I can use nethack.alt.org [see lack of keyboard...] > > UMPCs: > - Price < $500 [if this is possible, i want to know!] > - Runs Linux [not sure] > - < 1kg [check] > - Full size keyboard [might be hard to find] > - Screen resolution [probably] > - I can use nethack.alt.org [only if the full size keyboard is there] > > Cheap or used Laptop: > - Price < $500 [possible] > - Runs Linux [possible, but often there is the MS tax] > - < 1kg [not at $500... even old x series thinkpads weigh more] > - Full size keyboard [check] > - Screen resolution [check] > - I can use nethack.alt.org [check] > > > So, as long as the keyboard isn't a total writeoff (read: somewhat > better than those crappy keyboards that are on PDAs/phones,) I'm > definitely going to get one. > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
