Re: [Hampshire] Buying a Eee 901?

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Author: john
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Buying a Eee 901?
Hi all

You could get 2rd hand 901's in Cex in Southampton last week. They had
windows xp on it. I got mine from there (many months ago 2rd hand and still
going strong) and it is now a dual boot machine.

Cex is in the Marlands opposite Asda.

John Eayrs

On Friday 07 August 2009 13:37:13 pavithran wrote:
> 2009/8/6 Andy Random <andy.random@???>:
> >I decided I definitely
> > wanted one and now it seems I've left it too late :(
>
> Unfortunately "Yes " :(
> But still you can get a second hand EEE 901 with 12 GB SSD pre loaded
> with windows XP on amazon .
>
> The happiest thing is no one is selling their Linux based EEE 901 of
> 20 GB SSD . :D
>
> I also own one and I bought it for 259 £ . No I wont sell it for even
> 300 £ :P because I am lucky that I bought it at the right time . I
> couldn't find it anywhere near west quay hence ordered via amazon .
> You know what it got shipped from france :D
>
> EEE 901 with linux are museum pieces( but mordern) save yours carefully
> :D
>
> Why did it all happen ? Due to some great decisions by Asus and some
> force/evil negotiations by the great "M$"
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/08/microsoft-asus-linux
>
>
> Having said all that you can still buy Eee PC 1000H but definitely not
> as "worth the price" as EEE 901 :(
>
> This is a #fail for @asus
>
> Regards,
> Pavithran
>
>
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> www.pavithran.org