On 6/6/08, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > >> Don't forget the EEE PC and the OLPC and a couple new ultra-portable >> laptops that are coming out with Linux pre-installed. There have been > > This looks cool: > > http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/06/05/asus.eee.monitor.photo/
I've been looking around at the "netbook"/"mini ultraportable" machines lately. (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_subnotebooks>) Right now my top choices for possible purchase are the HP Mini-Note (SUSE, already available), the Dell Mini-Inspiron (Ubuntu, in production), the Acer Aspire One (Linpus Linux, in production), and the MSI Wind (SUSE, in production). My main considerations are high resolution--especially vertical--and low cost. I don't really like the EEE701 much now that I've played with a VM image of it. Especially when going over the "full Xandros desktop" portion, the low vertical pixel count is really frustrating. Lots of preference windows don't show their "OK" buttons because they're taller than the screen. The EEE900 has better resolution, but it's a little more expensive than I'd prefer to pay for one of these toys. The Acer looks like it might be the best combination of features and price, but I'm curious to see how well it will run other distros than the one that's pre-loaded. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith, English essayist and preacher (1771-1845) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
