Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-26 Thread Pete Stean
Soz, reading the news reports I thought that these things were retailing for $199, not $399... On the design, you'd have thought that they'd have 'widened' the screen a bit - theres lots of empty space in the clam shell if you look at the design. I think I'll probably wait for the next version

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-25 Thread mailgroups
I did wonder about that. This PC uses a solid state drive. Is that not similar to an SD card and hence will fail after x amount of write operations? Chris True, but then the OS has been tweaked so that it doesn't write to the flash memory (it's not really an SSD is it?) unless it

[ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, Just noticed that Efficient PC are selling Asus Eee PCs with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Ubuntu pre-installed. Looks like a nice deal. http://efficientpc.co.uk/laptops/eeepc701b-ubuntu/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Pete Stean
The price is a bit silly though... $1 does not equal £1, especially not at the moment :| Pete -- 'In letters of gold, on a snow-white kite, I will write I Love You! And send it soaring high above you, for all to read!' RIP Billy M 1957-1997 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just noticed that Efficient PC are selling Asus Eee PCs with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Ubuntu pre-installed. Looks like a nice deal. http://efficientpc.co.uk/laptops/eeepc701b-ubuntu/ Cheers, Al. I wish you guys would stop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:25:44AM +, Pete Stean wrote: The price is a bit silly though... $1 does not equal £1, especially not at the moment :| Not quite sure what you're on about there, but the EeePC is 400 USD in the US, and 200 GBP (roughly) in the UK, that's pretty much 2:1 which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Jim Kissel
Alan Pope wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:25:44AM +, Pete Stean wrote: The price is a bit silly though... $1 does not equal £1, especially not at the moment :| Not quite sure what you're on about there, but the EeePC is 400 USD in the US, and 200 GBP (roughly) in the UK, that's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Jim Kissel
Philip Newborough wrote: On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just noticed that Efficient PC are selling Asus Eee PCs with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Ubuntu pre-installed. Looks like a nice deal. http://efficientpc.co.uk/laptops/eeepc701b-ubuntu/ Cheers, Al. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread James Grabham
If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? I want to keep the 15s boot OS On Nov 24, 2007 1:21 PM, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Newborough wrote: On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Jim Kissel
James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? I want to keep the 15s boot OS I've run Ubuntu 7.04 (Gnome) on a VIA 600 Mhz PII with 512M of memory and a relatively

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? Yes. Not sure SD cards are not ideal for running an OS off of. They aren't quick and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Chris Rowson
On 11/24/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? Yes. Not sure SD cards are not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Jim Kissel
Chris Rowson wrote: On 11/24/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? Yes. Not sure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris Rowson wrote: On 11/24/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be slow? Yes. Not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Jim Kissel
Chris Rowson wrote: Chris Rowson wrote: On 11/24/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +, James Grabham wrote: If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 09:00:58PM +, Jim Kissel wrote: You could except I doubt you can find sufficient space inside a eee case. From the photos I've seen the SSD consists for 4 soldered in chips. Much smaller than a 2.5 in drive, SSD or otherwise. This is indeed the case on the Eee