This one time, at band camp, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > I've just bought an Aspire One -- the Linux edition. The price ($320 > after cashback from catchoftheday.com.au) couldn't be beat, although > this one has the Intel (slow) SSD. The Linux version that's on there > (Linpus) is a bit of a pain, so I installed Xubuntu instead.
Wow that price is pretty amazing! Looks like there's similar prices out there too. That could win it for me. > major advantages: very light weight (<1Kg); 2.5hrs battery (or, I'm > told, 6 with the larger battery one can buy) very cheap, reasonably > put together, three USB slots and two SD card readers (you can > apparently stick a 16G SDHC card in to triple your disc; the Linpus > distribution mounts it as unionFS over /home, but I haven't played > with it yet on Xubuntu). Low weight is very promising. The reviews of this one seem to say that the major downside is the battery life. Thanks for the info. -- Rev Simon Rumble <si...@rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Power and the Passion, Midnight Oil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
