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Re: [Sheflug] £99.00 notebook



Janet

The whole market is beginning to look like clones of the OLPC laptop.  
I knew this last time I was in Boston at the Boston Expo.  I was 
standing around looking at Professor Negroponte over the table and 
thinking that the world was about to change in a big way around us.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nicholas_Negroponte
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki

Whether or not this will eventually have an impact on the market for 
IBM and Dell hardware I'm not sure.  Dell and IBM aren't really as 
high quality as some people claim they are.

> After seeing your Eee PC at the meeting.  Someone drew my attention
> to this: http://www.elonexone.co.uk/index.html
> I couldn't find out anything about Linos and wondered if you could
> do all they said on 128 mb of memory without dying of old age
> waiting for the page to change.

Must be blind because I can't work out which software is on it.  Be 
careful about RAM (memory) because all recent versions of Linux uses 
a lot of it.  The minimum recommended is 512Mb of RAM but I use 2Gb 
of RAM on my EeePC.  I'm supposing that you will want to put Linux 
into it once you buy it.  Or, maybe you just want to use it as it is.

> Sort of tempted to part with my money, but not completely sold.

One of the reasons why the EeePC 700/701/900/901 is selling in pallet 
loads is that you can get hold of more RAM and batteries from Ebay 
for about £30 each.  Other than that go to Clove - www.clove.co.uk - 
which is where I like to get my mobile devices from.  My EeePC was 
from PC World who remained completely clueless about Linux even when 
I was buying the EeePC from them.  One of the other reasons that the 
EeePC is selling so well is that if you don't like (Xan)dross you can 
install any other versions of Linux.  Just put Ubuntu into mine and 
then installed KDE 3.5.9 after that.  Compiz works fine with KDE.
Then there's the complete lack of a rotating hard drive.  Back in the 
1970's and 1980's all of the designers who were involved in 
electronics set about removing all moving parts from electronic 
devices.  The Apple iPod is a good example of solid state design 
being a winning formula.

I Put Ubuntu into my EeePC because the Wi-Fi update from Asus kills 
the Wi-Fi.  An update to fix the bug is not promised.   You might 
also want to have a look at this...

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=13

Produces a very nice desktop on the EeePC.  Might even work on 
something else.  Google is your friend for further info.....


-- 
Richard

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