On 19/04/2008, Andy Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:19:11AM +0300, Brian Butterworth wrote: > > Hi Richard, just thinking yesterday that I hadn't heard from you on > > backstage in ages. > > > > On 19/04/2008, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > OK, a toy computer for £229. > > > > > > Actually it was £199 with delivery. > > > > > Apart from being fashionable, why would I want one? Why not leave > them > > > for the original target market? > > > > > I just thought, and still do think, that a device with just Flash > storage is > > a great idea. It makes the machine much lighter and lighting > fast. Granted > > I have a collection of MicroSD cards and USB drives to keep my music on, > but > > the fact that you can actually use it almost anywhere and carry it > around > > like a book make a lot of sense. > > > Absolutely. I have the 4Gb version of the EEE and I think it is a > fantastic device. I carry it about where I would hesitate to lug my > much heavier laptop. It fits my needs extremely well - I have been > saying for years that something like the Psion Netbook is what I wanted. > An EEE running Linux does what I want extremely well. Considering the > number of people who I know who have them I am not alone.
Yeah, I just chucked in my backpack when I came to Greece. There's no hard drive to worry about, and you can carry it around without OBVIOUSLY having a computer on you. Aside from needing my p700l.gz file to restore it after wiping the drive, it has been perfect. And yes, the most comparable object is the Psion 5e I had. The speakers are loud enough to listen to music if you need to, it will play DivXs from a flash card, Open Office is OK, and three USB slots is great. And if it gets nicked you won't be screwing, which you would with a MacBook Air! If I could just get Acer to stop calling me a "Valued Customer" and actually provide that one file I need... My original intention was just to test the proposition that you can live without both Microsoft and a hard drive. And, aside from a little local difficulty, you can. The One Laptop Per Child project's machine is similar and has a few extras (wind up battery, high contrast monochrome screen mode, webcam), but if I was wanting to get elected at the next UK general election I certainly would be proposing a whole job lot of these for every schoolchild in the UK. For one thing if the schoolbooks were provided as downloaded PDFs then children could walk to school again. And as far as corporates are concerned, there are many tasks that are being done on Windows Mobile devices that could easily be done on a Acer Eee PC at lower cost. -- > > Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" > - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
