Considering the Dell mini 12 and the Samsung NC20, happy to hear
alternatives. From what I've read, neither seems perfect. The Samsung
seems to be using via/chrome/etc. stuff that I've had trouble with in
the past, but maybe it's finally ok now?
This will be a first computer for a relative.
On Mon, June 8, 2009 4:34 pm, b...@bensand.com wrote:
Considering the Dell mini 12 and the Samsung NC20, happy to hear
alternatives. From what I've read, neither seems perfect. The Samsung seems
to be using via/chrome/etc. stuff that I've had trouble with in the past,
but maybe it's finally
My only one experience with an Acer laptop has left me with the impression;
I will never buy another Acer laptop.
I can't quantify it, but it has effectively been slow since the day it
was bought. Granted it runs MS, but it was always slow.
My experience with the acer aspire one running XP has been one of
pleasant happiness.
I'm not a normal user though; I install very little extra software on my
user machines.
Now to get Linux/Xen and FreeBSD working on it..
Adrian
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Kyle wrote:
My only one experience with
I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one.
The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice.
I suspect this aspire one goodness, rests mainly on an intel developed
reference board which has had minimal customization. The cheapy one has
all sorts of strange quirks.
Dean
Adrian
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 12:10 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
I have a ~$1000 acer laptop and an acer aspire one.
The former is utter garbage, the later is really nice.
Brother has an aspire running Linux for wife.Works well from what I
can see. It is not exactly stressed though, would not
I would certainly not consider running gentoo or freebsd and rebuilding
world.
However my aspire one serves as a very chep, v small, v quiet and low
power dhcp/dns/monitoring server. Add one usb2ps2 converter, and one
connection to a kvm or an ssh connection, and its crapped keyboard is no
