On Jun 23, at 10:24 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
The woman who told me about the mini 9 is a Mac user and graphicsdesigner. She uses her hacked mini nine when she travels to clients. Shesays she has not had any problems with software on the machine.
I've been thinking about buying something like the Eee for the last year or so. Although I knew one could shoehorn Leopard onto the machine, I was planning to leave it with Linux because the drive footprint is a lot smaller and the kernel can be optimized for the Atom processor, which many of the netbooks contain. This probably means it would run a lot faster under Linux.
You might consider doing this too because all the NeoOffice files are really Open Office files, and all the Linux-based netbooks come with Open Office installed. If you can use NeoOffice, then you can use Open Office and vice versa. If you can use Mac OS X and Windows, then you'll have no problem with Ubuntu.
There are several things holding me back from the plunge:The keyboards on the machines I've tried are horrible. They're so small that I can’t get my fingers on one key at a time.
Anything beyond the simplest Web video stuttered horribly because the processors were too slow. I tried out baseball games on MLB.com, and they were unwatchable.
AMD is coming out with a hot new inexpensive Neo processor that looks like its aimed at the netbook market. Reasonably low power consumption, cool running and much faster than the Intel Atom.
I really want something a bit bigger than the Eee and smaller than the MacBook. An updated version of the 12 inch PowerBook G4 would be perfect.
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