I have finally saved up enough cash to buy one of these and was hoping for a little direction. There are several flavors of them and I was likely going to purchase it from Newegg (unless someone knows of a better deal...) Here are the options I see:
ASUS Eee PC 1000 Linux based Intel Atom 10.0" Wide SVGA 1GB Memory 40GB SSD Integrated Graphics Retail $669 free ship ASUS Eee PC 1000H XP based Intel Atom 10.0" Wide SVGA 1GB Memory 80GB HDD Integrated Graphics Eee PC - Retail $549 OK so this is were I am debating. I understand the SSD should be faster and the life expectancy of the drive may be better. Also by getting the Xandros I would be contributing to a demand for Linux based machine rather than XP. But the catch is I would probably wipe Xandros anyway and put a different distro on it. Also I am confused with SSD and the regular drive. They both specify that the battery life is the same and that doesn't seem correct to me. Tom's Hardware seems to indicate that you lose more power with a SSD. Also the SSD appears to be a faster 8 GB SSD and a slower 32 GB SSD. I am guessing it it a RAID 0 or maybe two seperate partitions. I cannot find the specs on the 1000 SSD but I had thoughts of getting the 1000H and installing a SSD later when the market for them matures. I am not sure if I can upgrade the 1000 version since it is two drives. I guess the 1000H is what I am leaning towards but any input would be greatly appreciated. Also if anyone has a 1000 and would like to bring it to this next meeting so I can see it that would be awesome. The real bummer is that the two versions seem to be very near in price in other places like EU so that seems to indicate that Microsoft is subsidizing costs on the 1000H. Matthias _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
