My colleague was raving about the N800:<br><br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lob800-1.html">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lob800-1.html</a><br><br>About 50 quid less than EEEpc. Not strictly a laptop, but very cool :-)<br>
<br><a href="http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2007/10-ways-the-nokia-n800-is-better-than-apples-iphone/">http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2007/10-ways-the-nokia-n800-is-better-than-apples-iphone/</a><br><br>Ben<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">JGJones</b> <<a href="mailto:mailinglist@gwallgofi.com">mailinglist@gwallgofi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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! ;-)<div>
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:38 +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
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<pre><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>
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<font color="#000000">On 13/02/2008, JGJones <<a href="mailto:mailinglist@gwallgofi.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">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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