Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-20 Thread James Grabham
On Feb 18, 2008 9:04 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:
  WOW
  I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
 

 Have you read the specification of that thing?

 300MHz CPU.


Yeah, thats what Arch is for!



  The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
 

 It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
 shelves in the vast numbers that they have.


£220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny screen, and
is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull since I havs stubby
fingers, and since Im short sighted)  I could get a much better used
thinkpad X30 for the price.  £100 is an acceptable price though, not as a
main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, which is what I want this for.


  I will start saving ASAP
 

 If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd
 hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :)


hmm, I dunno



  (Being 15, money is always scarce)
 

 Yeah, I remember those days :(  eek, 20 years ago!


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-20 Thread LeeGroups

  The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
 

 It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
 shelves in the vast numbers that they have.


 £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny 
 screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull 
 since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted)  I could get 
 a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price.  £100 is an acceptable 
 price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, 
 which is what I want this for.
Woah! Hold on there...

That's your opinion, In my humble opinion (as I've actually owned an Eee 
PC since they came out), it's a stunning bit of kit. It's got superb 
build quality for £200, it does have a 'real' keyboard, granted it's 
something like 80% of size of a full sized keyboard, but it's a tiny 
machine, it's supposed to be a tiny machine, so it's GOT to have a 
smaller keyboard. And yes, I do have sausage fingers, but after a few 
hours use, it feels like a normal sized keyboard to me now.
Yes, you could get an old laptop for £200, but you couldn't stick an old 
laptop in a large coat pocket, could you?
Yes, £100 would be a much better price, but be realistic, there is £150+ 
worth of hardware in there, so they couldn't sell it for £100
as a main laptop - of course not, it's not designed to be a main 
laptop/PC, it's a tiny low powered, easily portable laptop - that's the 
point. The thing is tiny, the charger is tiny (like a mobile phone 
charger) - it fits in backpack hardly taking up any room. As for a large 
PDA... how many PDAs offer that kind of functionality???

You seem to have completely missed the point, it's not designed to be a 
cheap laptop, it's designed to a small laptop. The price is a bonus, 
given that UMPCs like to VAIOs cost £1200...


  I will start saving ASAP
 

 If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd
 hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :)

The thing is that the 8GB has been promised and rumoured for 2+ months 
now, and increase of flash memory, its only going to add to the price of 
the Eee2.
Given that Play.com are selling high speed 4GB SDHC cards for £10 inc 
postage, it seems daft to wait...
And who's going to sell if they can up the memory to 8GB for £10, and 
keep another 4GB taped to the underside of the case... :)

Best Eee PC comedy moment so far?
Sat in Wetherspoons with a friend of mine, the day after I go it, using 
Wetherspoons free wifi connection and the built in webcam to have a 
Skype video chat with a friend of ours in the next town...  Geeks huh?
#2 is reading my email in the car going down the M1 (no I wasn't 
driving) with a bluetooth connection to my phone and the phones 3G data 
connection... LOL not tried a Skype video chat in a moving car yet...




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-20 Thread Matt
LeeGroups wrote:
  The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
 

 It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
 shelves in the vast numbers that they have.


 £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny 
 screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull 
 since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted)  I could get 
 a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price.  £100 is an acceptable 
 price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, 
 which is what I want this for.
 
 Woah! Hold on there...

 That's your opinion, In my humble opinion (as I've actually owned an Eee 
 PC since they came out), it's a stunning bit of kit. It's got superb 
 build quality for £200, it does have a 'real' keyboard, granted it's 
 something like 80% of size of a full sized keyboard, but it's a tiny 
 machine, it's supposed to be a tiny machine, so it's GOT to have a 
 smaller keyboard. And yes, I do have sausage fingers, but after a few 
 hours use, it feels like a normal sized keyboard to me now.
 Yes, you could get an old laptop for £200, but you couldn't stick an old 
 laptop in a large coat pocket, could you?
 Yes, £100 would be a much better price, but be realistic, there is £150+ 
 worth of hardware in there, so they couldn't sell it for £100
 as a main laptop - of course not, it's not designed to be a main 
 laptop/PC, it's a tiny low powered, easily portable laptop - that's the 
 point. The thing is tiny, the charger is tiny (like a mobile phone 
 charger) - it fits in backpack hardly taking up any room. As for a large 
 PDA... how many PDAs offer that kind of functionality???

 You seem to have completely missed the point, it's not designed to be a 
 cheap laptop, it's designed to a small laptop. The price is a bonus, 
 given that UMPCs like to VAIOs cost £1200...
   
  I will start saving ASAP
 

 If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd
 hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :)

 
 The thing is that the 8GB has been promised and rumoured for 2+ months 
 now, and increase of flash memory, its only going to add to the price of 
 the Eee2.
 Given that Play.com are selling high speed 4GB SDHC cards for £10 inc 
 postage, it seems daft to wait...
 And who's going to sell if they can up the memory to 8GB for £10, and 
 keep another 4GB taped to the underside of the case... :)

 Best Eee PC comedy moment so far?
 Sat in Wetherspoons with a friend of mine, the day after I go it, using 
 Wetherspoons free wifi connection and the built in webcam to have a 
 Skype video chat with a friend of ours in the next town...  Geeks huh?
 #2 is reading my email in the car going down the M1 (no I wasn't 
 driving) with a bluetooth connection to my phone and the phones 3G data 
 connection... LOL not tried a Skype video chat in a moving car yet...




   
The barista in caffe nero was very interested in mine, I use it to type 
up my college work whilst waiting for the bus. I practically use it as 
my main machine, I have all my emails, and use it for typing long essays 
etc when I am at college. There is nothing else comparative available in 
the UK at the moment, about the closest thing in size is the sony 
picturebook, which is horrifically expensive.

The keyboard is OK, you get used to the little keys after a while. I 
wish it had a longer battery life, hopefully asus will catch up with the 
supply of batteries so there can be some going into retail channels.

I could not fit another laptop(even a 12 inch one) in with my folders 
and various other stuff(Large amounts of Mars planets usually) The size 
is ideal to just chuck in a bag with the slip cover on.

I think the £220 price is amazingly cheap, for the build quality 
espescially. I also have a Pentium 3 Toshiba Tecra, that when new was 
the top of the line laptop, (Going back some years admittedly) and that 
feels far flimsier than the EEE. Nothing squeaks, shakes or rattles at all.

The price of a High end PDA is about the same as the EEE, I know which 
one would be more useful.

I am using the sd card as a swap area until I pop some more ram into it. 
This seems to work well, although it does limit storage potential. 

Matt

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-20 Thread Rob Beard
John Levin wrote:

 Anyone have any idea what distro 
 it will be running?
 
 John
 

According to The Inquirer (link: 
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-specs-leaked)
 
it's going to be running Debian.

At first I thought it might be Arm based since Debian has an Arm port 
(and because ARM chips are low power, cheap etc) but then I found 
details of the Vortex86 system on a chip, I haven't got the link to the 
site I found earlier (I submitted it to the comments on The Inquirer but 
it's not come up at the moment), but I found this...

http://www.vortex86sx.com/products.html

It fits the bill, the other site was talking about an embedded PC board 
with 128MB DDR2 memory on there, so I assume they might have been able 
to either use a load of these boards (iirc the size was about 3 inches 
square) or some custom made.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:
 WOW
 I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
 

Have you read the specification of that thing?

300MHz CPU. 

 The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
 

It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
shelves in the vast numbers that they have.

 I will start saving ASAP
 

If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd
hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :)

 (Being 15, money is always scarce)
 

Yeah, I remember those days :(  eek, 20 years ago!

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Clare Shepherd



On 18 Feb 2008, at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 ...of course, what we're talking here is OS-X, an OS that is  
 completely
 different... and, imho, very hard to use compared to the other two.



Having used all three systems, I'm amazed at this remark. An OS is an  
OS. How different can they be. I have a MacBook. It took me an hour  
to get into using the coloured buttons instead of the usual cross  
etc. What is so hard to remember in replacing the CTL with the Apple  
logo key?

Puzzled,

Clare

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Pete Stean
I'm not sure that argument about games is going to be relevant for
much longer. Developers seem to be prepared to push out buggy rubbish
(Bioshock, Shadow of Chernobyl, LOTR to name a few) which they never
fix (I'm still waiting on patches for all of the above months and
months after release) and when the games do work they require the
latest and greatest hardware to get framerates into double figures
(even with a quad core cpu, Geforce 8800GTX etc, Crysis still runs
like a dog...)

I'm not sure they care about the PC platform or PC gamers any more...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Gavin Ford
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:31:37AM +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
 No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
 struggle with that.

The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.

Almost everything else can be replaced.

MS Office to Open Office or Abiword/Gnumeric or KOffice
Photoshop to GIMP
Internet Explorer to Firefox or Konqueror
Outlook to Evolution or Thunderbird

But if he can't play the latest 'Total War' game, my firend Jack isn't going to
switch.

From the Mac side, my fiend Harvey isn't going to move from a Mac to Linux, as 
the hardware he uses in his work (sound engineer/music producer) needs trade
secrets laiden drivers available only for Win/Mac.

There is a case to be made for using any Desktop OS.

I use Linux as it's free/free, has all the tools I need and is rock solid 
reliable.  It's also comfortable and familiar to me, that counts for a lot.

When I'm on a Mac I have to install the GNU Core Utils and spend my time in a 
terminal window.  Mac OS X is an excellent OS, it's UNIX just like us.  The 
downside is it's not all free/free and requires crazy expensive, but very nice,
hardware to run.

Windows is for gamers, because games are for Windows.  I don't play computer 
games much so I don't have a Windows machine.  All my gaming is covered by 
Gnome Mahjongg and ScummVM.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Pope

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:54 +, Gavin Ford wrote:
 The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
 

Maybe some people, but not all. My wife, niece and brother all use Linux
on their main computer. None of them are interested in games. They all
use the pretty standard apps you get on any desktop.

 Windows is for gamers, because games are for Windows.

I know a few people who dual boot Windows and Linux. Only using Windows
for gaming. Seems ideal.

   I don't play computer 
 games much so I don't have a Windows machine.  All my gaming is covered by 
 Gnome Mahjongg and ScummVM.
 

Heh. My games are fulfilled by emulators such as xfuse (spectrum) and
mame (arcade) :)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 13:37]:
 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:54 +, Gavin Ford wrote:
  The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
 
 Maybe some people, but not all. My wife, niece and brother all use Linux
 on their main computer. None of them are interested in games. They all
 use the pretty standard apps you get on any desktop.

Same here, no interest in games at all on PCs, although my wife has just
got hooked on Frozen Bubble :)

  Windows is for gamers, because games are for Windows.
 
 I know a few people who dual boot Windows and Linux. Only using Windows
 for gaming. Seems ideal.

I actually gave up on PC games shortly after they started moving from
DOS to Windows, although I wasn't a big DOS gamer either. I moved
through the old 'micro' computers up to the Amiga, and when DOS/Windows
started fouling the ease of gaming up realised that consoles were no
longer the crippled computers they used to be. Windows was crippling
computers, so consoles became useful :)

I don't play computer 
  games much so I don't have a Windows machine.  All my gaming is covered by 
  Gnome Mahjongg and ScummVM.
 
 Heh. My games are fulfilled by emulators such as xfuse (spectrum) and
 mame (arcade) :)

Yay for retro ;)
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Michael Holloway
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:33 +, Alan Pope wrote:

 I know a few people who dual boot Windows and Linux. Only using Windows
 for gaming. Seems ideal.
 
I for one am on of these people - a victim of WoW. I have a perfectly
legal and legit copy of Vista, just because i play games in what little
spare time i have. All of the rest of the time (working/surfing/time
killing) is spent in Linux.

I have managed to get most (some?) of the games i have to run in Linux
under Wine, though i must admit i have never tried Cedega. 

The one thing i find is that frame-rate is greatly reduced when running
Windows games in Linux... i guess that is due to Wine. Also, sometimes
the sound is buggy (don't we just love having so many sound engines!).

Playing games (RTC Wolfenstein for instance) works well with the native
client, but i have little hope or many more games going that way - which
is a major pitty.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Pope

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:54 +, Michael Holloway wrote:
 I have managed to get most (some?) of the games i have to run in Linux
 under Wine, though i must admit i have never tried Cedega. 
 

You can compile cedega from source FYI.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cedega although I have never done
this.

 The one thing i find is that frame-rate is greatly reduced when running
 Windows games in Linux... i guess that is due to Wine. Also, sometimes
 the sound is buggy (don't we just love having so many sound engines!).
 

Interestingly some games run _faster_ under WINE/Cedega than they do
under Windows :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Dave Murphy
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:54:01 +
Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I for one am on of these people - a victim of WoW. I have a perfectly
 legal and legit copy of Vista, just because i play games in what
 little spare time i have. All of the rest of the time
 (working/surfing/time killing) is spent in Linux.
 
 I have managed to get most (some?) of the games i have to run in Linux
 under Wine, though i must admit i have never tried Cedega. 

I'm playing WoW quite happily through Wine in Gutsy. Of course if Wine
didn't do such a good job of running it then I wouldn't now be addicted
to WoW.

That's the only MS Windows game I play though - everything is Free,
through emulators (MAME, ScummVM) or on consoles.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread alan c
Gavin Ford wrote:
 On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:31:37AM +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
 No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
 struggle with that.
 
 The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.

I have two elderly friends who use linux (kde) because it is stable, 
secure and worry free. they dont have any interest in games.
Another elderly friend uses it for these reasons but also - not least- 
because of its open ethic. this also applies to myself + wife.

Games:
Au contraire to your  suggestion, my grand daughter uses it *because* 
it has games. She is two years old. :-)
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[ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread John Levin
Just found this article:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3374812.ece

the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100 
computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the 
summer.

So how can Elonex make a computer for so little? 
The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which 
is a rival to Windows but completely free to use.

Elonex will be launching the computer at the Education Show at the NEC 
in Birmingham at the end of this month, and is targeting schools as 
potential buyers.

The elonex website seems to be down at the moment:
http://www.elonex.co.uk

So, anyone going to the Education Show? Anyone have any idea what distro 
it will be running?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread Mac
John Levin wrote:
 Just found this article:
 the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100 
 computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the 
 summer.
snip
 So, anyone going to the Education Show? Anyone have any idea what distro 
 it will be running?


More info at

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/elonex-one-englands-100-quid-laptop/

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-simple-linux-umpc-fontastic.html

Looks like most mentions originated with the TimesOnline article;  but 
distro doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere.

Mac



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread James Grabham
WOW

I REALLY WANT ONE!!!

The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??

I will start saving ASAP

(Being 15, money is always scarce)
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Lamb
Did anyone see the comment?


I was pleased with this development until I read Linux

Mike, Runcorn, United Kingdom

I say we beat him until he changes his ways.

No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
struggle with that.

Regards,
Daniel



On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:

 WOW
 
 I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
 
 The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
 
 I will start saving ASAP
 
 (Being 15, money is always scarce)
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread Tom Bamford
I encounter such attitudes all the time, especially among old school 
businessmen. It usually changes once I boot up an Ubuntu live CD for 
them, but I often have to expend much dialogue in coercing them to even 
take a look.


Tom


Daniel Lamb wrote:

Did anyone see the comment?

I was pleased with this development until I read Linux
Mike, Runcorn, United Kingdom

I say we beat him until he changes his ways.

No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really 
struggle with that.


Regards,
Daniel



On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:

WOW

I REALLY WANT ONE!!!

The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??

I will start saving ASAP

(Being 15, money is always scarce)



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread James Mansion
Daniel Lamb wrote:
 No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really 
 struggle with that.

Hmm.  I've been using Linux since Yggdrassil was the new kid on the 
block and I could
get an SLS subscription on 3.5 floppies.  And I definitely have things 
against Linux.  Take
off the rose tinted specs.

The biggest problem with schools IT is training - not just for the 
teachers but also for
the external support staff that have to help out.  We gave serious 
consideration to trying to
help improve our children's lower school facilities by reusing old 
systems, but in all
honesty it woulf have become an albatross for the school as soon as the 
kids moved
on and our interest in voluntary work to support that school died.

James


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-17 Thread Sean Miller
On 2/18/08, James Mansion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The biggest problem with schools IT is training - not just for the
teachers but also for
the external support staff that have to help out.  We gave serious
consideration to trying to

Well, as I see it there are three major operating systems on the desktop at
present...

- Windows
- OS-X
- Linux

...of the three, one is completely different, and obviously hard to learn
for those used to the other two... long established key combinations
(Ctrl-C, Ctrl-R, Shift-Tab) simply do not work... the top menu changes
contextually, so how to get back to what you were just doing isn't
apparent...

...of course, what we're talking here is OS-X, an OS that is completely
different... and, imho, very hard to use compared to the other two.

...Micro$oft borrowed things like Ctrl-C from Unix... Linux desktops have
(KDE/Gnom at least) retained key combinations common to Windows users for
ease of portability...

Could it be that we're talking ourselves out of the school market, because I
don't actually see where this problem that James refers to is...  if
location on the screen is a problem then both KDE and Gnome can be
configured to look just like Windows... OpenOffice will provide all the
things that MSOffice can, and don't be fooled by the let's give them the
same software as they'll use in the workplace because software changes... a
school that 5 years ago taught pupils Office 2000, is that any more relevant
today than had they taught the concepts using Openoffice?!?!  Of course
not... because Office 2000 is probably no less different to Microsoft's
latest beast than Openoffice... it's the concepts you're teaching, not a
brand...

They say that once you've been conditioned into a way of thinking it is hard
to break out of it... this is nowhere more present than in the fear of
anything not Micro$oft.   When people do actually break out they are
generally impressed by what they find... let's not put our product down...
if people really want proprietary software there is always wine/Crossover...
let's tackle the fear head on...

Sean
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