On 7 April 2010 07:11, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a birthday coming up, and up for grabs is a netbook. I have heard good > things about the Eee PC family from CLUGers a while ago, so I would like to > hear any opinions on this model in particular: > <http://www.enetcomputers.co.nz/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ASUS103>. (For > the impatient and those confined by an over-restrictive firewall, it is listed > as an "Asus EeePC 1005HA"). Any recommendations of or opinions on other > models or families would be welcome, as well.
I acquired that exact same model by the exact same route. That's a good price, assuming that their service is good (I used TasTech, whose service is excellent). I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 and have few complaints (for those who don't know me, that's high praise ;). Wireless works out of the box. Graphics seem good. Battery life is good, easily over 4 hours on a charge. Built in webcam works, but isn't wonderful in low light conditions. Built in microphone is adequate. One or two apps struggle to fit in the netbook-size screen, but most work surprisingly well. My only real whinge, and the one that keeps Win7 as a dual-boot option, is that UNR doesn't recognise my Garmin GPS over USB. Don't know if that's a pure Ubuntu problem, or if there's some interaction between the netbook's hardware and the OS. HTH, Roy.
