On Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 12:58:53PM +0200, Martin Sander wrote: > Hey. I thought about buying a netbook, too, and here are my two cents: > > I saw the Eeepc 900 sitting next to a Acer Aspire One in a shop and > tried both of them, and I have one major conclusion: > If touchtyping is important for you (and I guess it is, otherwise you > wouldn't be reading this mailing list), go for the Acer. Or at least try > both the Eeepc and the Acer's keyboards. > > The touchpads are crap of course, but all touchpads are if you ask me. > Maybe lenovo wants a share of the netbook market and there will be a > thinkpad netbook with a red "nipple", that would be nice. > > As for the small screens: > My Thinkpad x21 (1024x768) was the reason I started using dwm in the > first place, although I have to admit that I use dwm in a > monocle-kind-of way most of the time on that laptop. > > Btw. if you try the Acer in a shop, try opening a terminal and typing > "sudo su"..
and how do you open a terminal? the only way i could find was opening Thunar (via My "Files") and pulling up a location bar and typing /usr/bin/xterm ctrl-alt-f1 etc didnt work.. also their linux distro does not include 'man'!!! yes the aspire one is nice though, i run DWM on mine of course > > regards > > Martin
