No ideas about local suppliers, sorry. A few years ago I bought an Insite (Chch based) laptop (rebranded MSI) but the power management has never worked with Linux; in any case, they are now part of Renaissance/Youbee which probably doesn't classify as local ... ?
I bought the Asus Eee 1001 as a travelling PC, ~$400 from DSE (who are in the process of being stripped down for sale, perhaps store closures will mean cheaper kit for a while? http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/dick-smith-angered-sell-off-4708985) I shrunk & kept the Windows 7 partition (have to run Lego Designer somehow I guess) and popped Linux on the spare space, it runs just fine and does everything properly (including resuming from suspend properly, sadly the first device I've owned that does that!) I extended RAM from 1GB to 2GB - PBTech sold the 2GB RAM stick for $30, DSE was asking $150. Yes, five times as much for the same thing. Now it runs OK as long as you don't ask for too much. Good for watching LCA videos from the HDD :-) Perhaps an SSD would help, but it's fine the way it is. Battery lasts reliably just over 2 hours. Given that I have a desktop & server, I'm thinking that I should get the Asus Transformer Prime Android tabletish machine when it's available here. This seems to be a good choice for a 'does everything, doesn't store much' machine with excellent battery life. The older model has a good reputation. -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
