I had decided a while ago that I wanted a small, portable machine for
mobile e-mail and the like.
I evaluated all of the new sub-notebooks on offer, (and was fed a load of
nonsense by sales staff in the process,) before concluding that I was not
impressed by any of them. They all seemed so restricted and fragile that I
decided against buying one.
Instead, I bought a second-hand (refurbished) ThinkPad X30, which is heavier
but is a very solid 'real' computer with a decent screen and keyboard. It
also cost me rather less than I had set aside for the purchase.
I'm about to scrape XP off the disc and throw it away, before installing
Etch. (A well-trodden path, as a quick web search reveals, so there's plenty
of reassurance there!)
So far, I'm very happy with my purchase, so I offer this as a
possible alternative approach.....
Chris
On 19/10/2008, Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:
>
> Damian Brasher wrote:
> > Including a quiet fan hack, the only fault as far as I'm concerned. A
> > battery upgrade will be made available from Acer (almost certainly from
> > 3rd party dealers) and will take the battery life from about 2 to 4 hours
> > I believe. There is a Screenshot of Ubuntu Netbook Re-mix at the top of
> > the page. I was over at a friends house Friday as he installed Ubuntu on
> > his Asus EEE. Impressively smooth MS XP preparation tool and simple with
> a
> > 4G data-stick but I'll stick to Linpus as I'm a Fedora fan, really like
> > XFCE and all the hardware functions are implemented.
>
> Hi Damian,
>
> I looked into swapping Linpus out for Ubuntu on my son's Acer One and
> really couldn't see what the benefits were given that Linpus has been
> designed to work with the Acer One and that the Ubuntu build is far from
> complete or perfect in that regard.
>
> Once you enable the xfce menu from right-click on the desktop Linpus is
> as versatile as Ubuntu IMHO. I did put the latest version of Opera on it
> and that's quite nice, especially since I have added that in to the xfce
> menu to make it a little more accessible - I haven't discovered how to
> hack the main menu yet.
>
> The main thing is that Sammy is very pleased with it and it certainly
> gets some use. I'd love one but really can't justify the expense!
>
> Sean
>
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