On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Vern Ceder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simón Ruiz wrote: > But I would think that only a $50 difference for double the storage > would make the 2 Gb model a bad buy except for cases that were VERY > budget constrained... I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. And > the eee goes up to an 8Gb model, so they clearly have higher goals as well.
Hmmm, ok, granted. Asus's market isn't limited to lower price ranges, but in my mind that's the part of this that is most exciting, the really cheap computers that bring laptop computing into the economic grasp of a lot of people who before may not have considered buying a computer. Tiny laptops are neat and all, but it's the fact that they're affordable that interests me most. > No thorough tests of battery life yet - one reviewer reports just under > 3.5 hours using the 6 cell battery on a machine set to "High > Performance" with wifi on *and* a conventional hard drive. That ought to > translate to well over 4 hours with a solid state drive and conservative > power consumption... key word being "ought". Ought, indeed. I guess that might be enough for me, though, if it can suspend and make that battery-full of power last a full day of light duty as a secondary computer. > Vern Simón P.S. So, I keep a lot of tabs going in Firefox, and they all open up when I run Firefox. Apparently the hotel I'm staying at detects that generally large number of web requests as "malicious behavior", so they shut down my ethernet port completely so I had to call and get them to let me back on. Twice. "Yeah, usually if you have, like, 4 tabs, you're fine, any more than that and our system has problems..." Anyone else ever have this sort of thing happen? On the plus side, I was able to say "I'm not getting a DHCP lease here at such room in such hotel." and the lady answered "You're not getting an IP address? Ok, let my check on something...ok, unplug your computer and plug it back in and you should be able to get that lease." rather than "Give me a minute. What version of Windows are you running? I need to go through my script." _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
