The Netbook Thread

[benedictw]

This page has a roundup of all the current little lappys on it.

[Cloudane]

Airis Kira 100
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/keep ... e-pc-wave/

Not quite a eee, slower, same price but with an interesting colourscheme.

and what colour would you like to order for your new laptop?

bumblebee plzs. ta thxs.

Sorry, we're all sold out of those. Actually, we're not sure where they went...

[Arthur Ringworn]

I think it's crazy that they are selling the Windows and Linux eee 900 for the same price but with 20GB for linux but vs 12GB for XP.

Is the markup on XP so great that they can't bear the thought of people choosing the cheaper option? Or a Microsoft applying some pressure so that their OS doesn't look like an unnecessary expense?

[dom]

Just saw this on el reg:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/25 ... s_eee_900/

Asus Eee PC 900 20GB
Verdict: The Eee PC gains the screen size and storage capacity needed to make it fly - but loses its 'what the heck' price.
Rating: 85%
Suggested Price: £329
Online Price: from £339.95 — 1 sellers

Hooray!

[HGFB]

Here's a list of places to buy the various models from.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=18369

[astroturf]

I had myself a lovely little eeepc. I feel that I must warn people that they are so small you may forget you have them on your lap. This happened to me and the outcome was not pretty. I saw on the internet that nintendo send out free wii remote condoms so I was filling in the forms while smoking a nice joint. Something on the TV distracted me and a few minutes later I thought to myself "oh yeah, you need to get the serial number from the wii to get the free shit", so I jumped up and the eeepc went flying. Fortunately I just barely caught it with one hand, unfortunately I then did a kind of flying knee attack on it to try and get hold of it which cracked the screen.

I only had it for about 2 weeks.

[dom]

It looks like the UK version of the 900 isn't available yet, as the ones available here have US keyboards.

[HGFB]

There's only one place in the UK currently selling them Dom. All the rest will be preorders for the UK version.

[Firefox]

Noes! Fail! MSI have but the bloody fn key where the left Ctrl key should be, for lots of blood-pressure elevating editing mishaps.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/25/msi- ... -the-wind/

[Dio]

!

Who in their right minds would do that?

[Firefox]

Well, I suppose Apple do, amongst others.

Sorry, bit of a pet hate of mine. I tend to forget the keyboard's like that after a while and end up replacing tracts of text with the letter "C" instead of copying them, etc etc. It was the one thing that really drove me up the wall about my old iBook.

[Kemper_Boyd]

Why do Asus make Eees in any other colour?
http://flickr.com/photos/flickr_10g/244 ... otostream/

[VNVObit]

Currently posting from my new pc900
the bigger screen + resolution make a huge difference
certainly improves usability (for me at least)
Only the linux version was available, which suited me fine
have the Xandrox left on the 4GB SSD and am using ubuntu 8.04 installed on the secondary 16gb SSD
slightly belt and braces but it is quite useful to have

[Firefox]

Blimey! Where did you get that from? I didn't realise they were out yet.

[VNVObit]

got it at Miro Anvika on Thursday. Have been mucking about trying to get Xubuntu on it but ended up installing Ubuntu

MA had about 20 in stock although they seemed to be going quickly
didn't seem to have the same level of preorders (I didn't preorder just decided after seeing the new screen in the flesh)

still a bit of configuring to do actually may muck about it a bit further as I prefer Xubuntu (less of an overhead) as I mainly use it for email,web and a knowledge base (found a great suite called egroupware which basically does all I want it to -web based on php,mysql...)