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Re: Help me choosing a netbook

ollie — Tue May 19, 2009 1:02 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:02 pm

Yeah, the tea gets cold and transport costs are too high

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

nelz — Tue May 19, 2009 12:03 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:03 pm

Ah, that's why we don't have an Eee owners club

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

CJLL — Mon May 18, 2009 7:57 pm

Author: CJLL

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:57 pm

Rhakios wrote:

M-Saunders wrote:

What happens in this club CJ? Do you get a cool badge or something?

M

No, it's fairly warm, having been in CJ's pocket for quite some time.

ROFL

you get free tea and sympathy when you netbook refuses to stay connected to the net for more than 30 secs

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

Rhakios — Mon May 18, 2009 6:28 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:28 pm

M-Saunders wrote:

What happens in this club CJ? Do you get a cool badge or something?

M

No, it's fairly warm, having been in CJ's pocket for quite some time.

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

M-Saunders — Mon May 18, 2009 11:10 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:10 am

What happens in this club CJ? Do you get a cool badge or something?

M

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

CJLL — Sat May 16, 2009 5:58 pm

Author: CJLL

Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:58 pm

Hurrah, welcome to the AAO owners club

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

Haakin — Thu May 14, 2009 9:11 pm

Author: Haakin

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:11 pm

Hi!

Finally I bought the AAO with HD because I need the space tostore photos when I'm travelling.

Now I'm using the standard Linpus Lite installation with a few changes, like upgrading OOo, VLC or Firefox.

Now I'm thinking seriously on changing the distro to an Ubuntu Netbook Remix. The only things that prevent me to do it are the duration of the batteryy and the booting time. I like the fact that AAO boots quite fast.

Anyway, thanks for the offering.

Javier

RE: Re: Help me choosing a netbook

jknights — Thu May 14, 2009 8:35 pm

Author: jknights

Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 8:35 pm

Javier,
The Acer Aspire One is a great little machine but is limited by the screen resolution and max RAM.
If you just want it for email and web browsing getting the SSD version is fine. For anything else then the HD versions are better. Upgrade the RAM to a maximum of 1.5GB and everything flies under any OS. Currently I'm on my AAO 110AW with Linpus Lite under XFCE and customised heavily. This unit is an 8GB SSD device with the RA<M upgraded to 1.5GB and is great.
It runs Fedora10 very well but you are cramped for disk space.

I also have a AAO150bB that has a 120GB HD,1.5GB RAM and runs OSX. Absolutely wonderful. No Windows rubbish and corruptions.

If you need help then I'm in Oliva, 100km south of Valencia.
Adios amigo.

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

Haakin — Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:10 pm

Author: Haakin

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:10 pm

Hi!

Finally I bought an Acer Aspire One. It was 250 eur with Linux, 1 Gb ram and 160 Gb of HD. I hope that it was a good deal.

In fact I'm using it right now. I can't believe that Linux could boot up so quickly. The user experience is quite good.Everything works out of the box, including flash, wifi, etc.

One of the minor factors I considered to buy it was the new series about the AAO in the LXF.

Thanks to all that have participated in this thread. It was really helpful.

Javier

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

jolharg — Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:16 pm

Author: jolharg

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:16 pm

Shouldn't be hard. You could always run Unetbootin with the ISO image, or somehow make a USB disk with the Ubuntu installer on another computer and use the USB disk to bot from...
You can get the Windows license back, providing you clidk "I do not agree"!

http://www.linux.com/articles/59381

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

Haakin — Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:24 am

Author: Haakin

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:24 am

Hello again,

I've been reading all this interesting discussion. I didn't say anything because I hadn't anything useful to add.

I think that finally I'll buy a Dell mini 9... with Windows :-O

Why? Because it seems to be cheaper than the Linux version. Here are the prices:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=es&cs=esdhs1&l=es&ref=lthp&s=dhs

(I hope the link will work later. In Spanish, sorry)

The Ubuntu version is 269 eur. It has a 8 Gb disc and an integrated video card Intel 500.

The Windows version is only 50 eur more and it has a 16 Gb disc and the video card is an Intel 950, which seems to be more powerful than the 500.

Upgrading the Ubuntu one to 16 Gb costs 45 eur. For only 5 eur I get a better video card (and a Windows license).

I really hate to buy a Windows license. One of the points I like of the dell was that it uses Ubuntu. Anyway, is it difficult to install Ubuntu in one of these machines?

Javier

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

jolharg — Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:07 pm

Author: jolharg

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:07 pm

Who knows?

For the less power-inclined, you can pick up an Elonex One (a UK company) for £100. And they're legit.
www.elonex.com

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

HINTERG — Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:33 am

Author: HINTERG

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:33 am

gn2 wrote:

Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole: http://tinyurl.com/agzzew

Too good to be true?

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

gn2 — Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:21 am

Author: gn2

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:21 am

Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole: http://tinyurl.com/agzzew

Re: Help me choosing a netbook

jolharg — Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:43 pm

Author: jolharg

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:43 pm

It's back now...?