Re: [Hampshire] Re: Eee 900

Simon Reap wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 01:01 +0100, Peter Salisbury wrote:
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>> What really amazes me is that these machines which started as rock
>> bottom price items are now considerably more expensive than a cheap
>> laptop. Maybe it's just that you have to pay the extra to be allowed
>> not to have Vista!
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> I'm very happy with my 701 (only 187 pounds at Heathrow - there *are*
> benefits to being sent on business trips!) - initial family complaints
> at there being yet more hardware lying around were assuaged when they
> used it to play BBC radio "listen again" items while wandering around
> the house. Startup time is only 42 seconds from cold, and it is able to
> compile and run some networking simulators I wrote for work (it can send
> and receive about 40,000 SMPP mesages per second on the Asus - not quite
> the 80,000 that an HPUX box can do, but not bad).
>

42 seconds to boot! What OS are you running? My un=moded 701 boots
Xandros in about 20 seconds.
> I'm not sure I would have spent over 300 pounds on it, though, even with
> more memory and screen area.
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> Simon
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