Cool - not sure what you mean by "soon", but if that means during the
holidays or before the first of the year or something... - would you
mind keeping a log and sending along what it took to get Debian running
on it?

While I'm looking for a netbook, if I find one with HDMI out - that
would rock some video to a TV too.

Thanks,
DK


Charles Wyble wrote:
> I have an acer sitting on my desk right now. It will soon be getting debian 
> deployed, and tested. 
>
> Reports online indicate incredible CPU savings when rendering flash. 
>
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:54 PM, David Kaiser wrote:
>
>   
>> In looking at a better (faster) netbook option, I'm interested in
>> something with an Atom N280 processor, and I've read some of these
>> reviews about the Nvidia ION processor, such as this one: 
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_ion_linux&num=1
>>
>> It seems like there is an extension (VDPAU) which is yet another
>> proprietary Nvidia hook, but when you have all the drivers and
>> everything supported properly, you get really fast performance with low
>> energy needs (longer battery life when you use less CPU, etc.)
>>
>> Does anyone on the list have a recent enough netbook or Atom cpu'd
>> device with the ION GPU?  Any input on this? 
>>
>> DK
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