"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.03.07.09.00.53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:35:34 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
EeePC 900 vs HP 2133: Which Linux UMPC Will You Buy?
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| Of note with both machines is that Microsoft still currently plans
to
stop | selling Windows XP to OEMs and Retail customers June 30, 2008.
This means | that either company wishing to sell pre-loaded XP
machines
alongside Linux | versions will need to ship with Windows Vista. This
means at least a 1 Ghz | CPU and 20 GB of HD all around. It will
remain
to be seen how the SSD-based | EeePC 900 will face this potential
problem. `----
I'm sure customers will be delirious with joy running Vista on a 1 ghz
CPU made by VIA.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can make that cutoff date
stick, if OEMs tell them its either XP or Linux, but not Vista, for
the
UM category.
Charlie
The low-cost laptops are out there now. I've just bought an Asus 4G
also known as Model 701, it comes with a Linux in it but as you buy
the machine, the Linux is so dumbed-down it's useless. The info
that comes with it has all that "technical stuff" omitted -- what in the
world are those Asus people thinking? ??
However, I soon found how to get past that cute and decorative
interface to the real Linux in there, with some major help from
people here. Resources there included nano, pico, and vi. So
the machine can do serious work, as you might not guess from
the gooey interface it comes with.
So now that little Asus is going to make an *excellent* machine
for travelling. It has wireless. And it illustrates the Microsoft
effect
that you need ever bigger and bigger hardware and software to do
anything (using Windows). *You don't.* 4G of flash disk plus 512
Mb of ram (and three USB ports) is *enough*. This small Asus
running Linux will serve for years to come. Good investment.
Titeotwawki -- mha [cola 2008 Mar 7]
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