[SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12 netbook
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. They've checked some out in store and prefer the 12 netbook style to anything else. 10 too small, full blown laptops too bulky/heavy. Desirable: * Divx Playback * Good battery life Essential: * Suspend/resume to ram on lid close works perfectly * Suspend to disk on low battery (even if in suspend to RAM state). ~$1,000 or less. Cheers, Ben Sand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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 ok now? I have no idea if Acer does Linux, BUT, (as I'm also on a netbook research for someone (though, with XP)): there is a new Acer out with 11.6 and 3g slot: btw, is there a site with Linux netbook compatibility ? - Aspire One 11.6 - AO751h AAH * Mobile Intel® US15W Express Chipset * 3-cell Li-ion battery * 1.25 kg (2.75 lbs.) for 3-cell battery pack Atom Z520 (1.33 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB) 11.6 WXGA TFT-LCD 1366x768 1GB DDR2 533MHz 160GB S-ATA Hard Drive 5400 RPM - -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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. Kind Regards Kyle Voytek Eymont wrote: I have no idea if Acer does Linux, BUT, (as I'm also on a netbook research for someone (though, with XP)): there is a new Acer out with 11.6 and 3g slot: btw, is there a site with Linux netbook compatibility ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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 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. Kind Regards Kyle Voytek Eymont wrote: I have no idea if Acer does Linux, BUT, (as I'm also on a netbook research for someone (though, with XP)): there is a new Acer out with 11.6 and 3g slot: btw, is there a site with Linux netbook compatibility ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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 Chadd wrote: 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 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. Kind Regards Kyle Voytek Eymont wrote: I have no idea if Acer does Linux, BUT, (as I'm also on a netbook research for someone (though, with XP)): there is a new Acer out with 11.6 and 3g slot: btw, is there a site with Linux netbook compatibility ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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 want to compile a kernel on it. Pentium 100 it was an overnight job, ah the good old days. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook
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 longer a problem :) Dean Ken Foskey wrote: 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 want to compile a kernel on it. Pentium 100 it was an overnight job, ah the good old days. Ken -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
