Re: [Hampshire] Which Netbook?

well if you can wait a little while there might be a jolly good online
store flogging Elonex webbooks. These are running Ubuntu and are jolly
good if I say so myself. They lack 3d drivers at the moment so Compiz
won't work but the hardware could do it and probably will one day. They
have an 80GB hard drive 512MB ram and a 1024x600 screen.
As for the competition, the eeePC 701 has an 800x480 screen, that is a
bit small for general purpose use, but can be handy as a satellite
computer to a desktop. Above that the eeePC 901, Dell mini 9 and the
rest are all pretty capable contenders however the HP 2133 mini note is
the competitor that worries me the most, it has a 9 inch screen but a
1280 x 768 resolution, that extra 168 vertical pixels really does make a
difference sometimes.

Alan.

Richard Danter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am considering getting a netbook for my wife for Christmas. She is
> actually quite keen to learn Linux. We were recently in a shop with
> the Asus Eee PC 901 on display and though it was running WinXP I
> suggested she have a look. My main worry was that she wouldn't like
> the smaller keyboard or display, but she really liked it a lot in the
> short time we had a play (the constant attentions of the sales guy
> eventually drove us away).
>
> I have not really been paying much attention to the netbooks since I
> can't really warrant one for myself and didn't think my wife would be
> so interested but now that has changed - just in time for Christmas!
>
> A quick look on Amazon and I am surprised at the number of different models.
>
> So can anyone recommend which model to buy? I can see there is both
> the 901 and the 1000, maybe others. Some have SSD and some HDD. How do
> they compare? What about battery life, same for both? Do they all have
> the same amount (1GB) of RAM? The price does not seem to be all that
> different. Should I be considering any other make/models?
>
> She will use the machine mostly for writing reports, doing
> presentations, email and of course web browsing. Is there a benefit to
> swapping out Xandros and using Ubuntu? Since my wife has not used
> either of them I doubt it matters from the "previous experience" point
> of view.
>
> Thanks
> Rich
>
>