I've found it on the PC World web site.<br><br>Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Forster</b> <<a href="mailto:rick@forster.uklinux.net">rick@forster.uklinux.net
</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;">I've not had Paul's email arrive for me yet but I can read it in what
<br>Geoff replied to. £200. Remember, this is the 2GB version (though<br>exactly how it differs from the 4GB version remains unclear, it<br>certainly did NOT have a webcam though. Can't recall the RAM.)<br><br>Geoff: As stated in the original message. A custom version of the
<br>Xandros distribution is loaded by default.<br><br><br>Geoff Bagley wrote:<br>> Just for curiosity, what is the operating system ?<br>><br>> Geoff<br>><br>><br>><br>> Paul Potter wrote:<br>>> PC World? Oh man, the last place I expected to have them. I'll have to
<br>>> check one out. How much was it?<br>>><br>>> Paul<br>>><br>>> On 28/12/2007, *Richard Forster* < <a href="mailto:rick@forster.uklinux.net">rick@forster.uklinux.net</a><br>>> <mailto:
<a href="mailto:rick@forster.uklinux.net">rick@forster.uklinux.net</a>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> Yo<br>>><br>>> I had a chance to play with one of those teeny little Asus EEE PCs<br>>> today
<br>>> and I was jolly impressed. The custom Xandros distro is very<br>>> similar to<br>>> the GUI on my old Zaurus PDA and fits the simple nature of the device<br>>> quite well. That saying, I'd probably put a std distro on it if I
<br>>> could<br>>> be sure of getting all the hardware working.<br>>><br>>> The black borders on the side of the display where the speakers<br>>> are do<br>>> not seem obtrusive and the screen is fine as it is. The rumoured 10"
<br>>> screen might be nice but isn't necessary (and it would use more<br>>> power).<br>>><br>>> The keyboard is about as small as it can be and still be useful,<br>>> those<br>
>> with fatter fingers than me might not get on well with it.<br>>><br>>> I would have liked to have tested it for things like multimedia<br>>> playback<br>>> as it ships with mplayer, but I couldn't find any movie files
<br>>> already<br>>> in the flash and didn't want to spend too long tapping away at a<br>>> console.<br>>><br>>> If it wasn't for that fact that PC World[1] only had the 2GB
<br>>> version in<br>>> stock I might well have bought one.<br>>><br>>> Rick<br>>><br>>> [1] I know. Sorry.<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________
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