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My primary laptop is a Dell Vostro 1500 - it's a very very heavy laptop!<BR>
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If I'm going to somewhere like a trade show which I am increasingly likely to do in my job - I'll want something small and light that I could whip out and make notes and go online/send emails etc. EEEpc fits there very well. Or for on the plane or other travels (which again I'm more likely to do soon (although not around the world :-( ) with ripped movies and so on - the EEEpc is seriously small. Hell you even find them in Toy'r'us these days now! :-)<BR>
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Cheap? An EEEpc cost about £200. That's it. Also great for kids if you want to get them a laptop as an alternative to the OLPC.<BR>
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As for where do I have the space? That's why most of my systems are laptops - they're easy to put away. Two are work laptops, one is wifey's. The server is a Shuttle box (it's quite small and goes under the TV easily enough) so you don't actually notice much computers in the house! ;-)<BR>
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:38 +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I have heard of it.. never tried it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">there is also AmigaOS4.0 which suprised me that was still going.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Distros I have tried are most Linux varant</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">BSD</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hurd.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Why are you getting a EEEpc when you already have a laptop of some kind?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I love to get my childen (OLPC) but first I need to get one but I am</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">so poor :-(</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Fintan</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 13/02/2008, JGJones <<A HREF="mailto:mailinglist@gwallgofi.com">mailinglist@gwallgofi.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I wonder if any of you heard of BeOS?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> This was what started me on the Linux actually even though it's not Linux.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> BeOS is now a dead OS, that *might* had been the replacement for OS9, but</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> they went with NeXT instead along with Steve Jobs.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> However when I used it, I always loved the fast speed of it. Anyway a new</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> project to bring back to life BeOS is called Haiku which is programmed from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> grounds up to be as similar as possible to BeOS (ie booting up in seconds</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (and I mean that...seconds - BeOS is FAST).</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> They do have VMWare images so that you can try it out in VMWare Player</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (free) and the boot up time in VMWare player is screamingly fast - took less</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> than 3 seconds in my case.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Was thinking that if this is fast it would make for an ideal replacement OS</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> for an EEEpc if I get one - since for an EEEpc I would only want internet</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and email access and basic office suite (ie Abiword would be ideal)</FONT>
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