Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-08-03 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) Am 31.07.2011 04:54, schrieb Ron Feigenblatt: On 5/30/11, Christoph

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-08-03 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
Hello, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think this might just become my next impulse purchase;-) ...As an aside, my

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ron Feigenblatt doc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-31 Thread DancesWithCars
I'll take some of that back, I'm running it now, 0.90.1 or .2, IIRC, sucrose-0.90 and sugar-firefox-activity sugar-terminal-activity and many more .debs I've not tried, but am typing in one window on an EeePC (Not X101) now. Didn't pull it all in easily, as in give me a whole environment when

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-30 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 5/30/11, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: it's still early days but it looks like the ASUS Eee PC X101 presented at a pre-Computex press event today could be a good platform for Sugar. ...Since it runs Meego I would assume that on the software side of things getting

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
FYI: Directron in the United States now accepts pre-orders for the X101 at a price point of $209: http://www.directron.com/x101eu17bk.html?gsear=1 If anyone goes for it please let me know what you think about it, especially as a platform for education projects. Unfortunately it's still not

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications Unfortunately at 28Wh the battery is relatively small so it will be interesting to see what real-time battery life people will report. Christoph Am 28.07.2011 11:17, schrieb

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-07-28 Thread DancesWithCars
re: porting to other distros, Ubuntu's has had only limited to slight success... On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus just posted the specifications page for the X101: http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_X101/#specifications