[Chester LUG] Recommended 'mini' laptop.

[Paul Williams]

I use the eeepc 904ha.  It came with XP and is currently dual booted with vanilla Ubuntu 9.04  Everything works.  No problems so far.  It is similar spec to the 1000H, except for the 10.2 inch monitor is an 8.9 inch one instead.  This trade off buys you about £50 off the price of the 1000H.  Worth it.

Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:53:59 +0100
From: stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] Recommended 'mini' laptop.

I agree, I have an NC10 and it is awesome. It is not one of the cheaper ones, but on a positive note you can tell that it is better, ie construction quality etc, and the battery life is around 5 -6 hours of light use. It works out the box with the ubuntu remix edition, if that helps.


Regards

Stuart

2009/5/25 Andrew Williams <andy at tensixtyone.com>

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:09:58PM +0100, Roger Gibson wrote:

> I've a birthday coming soon, and wondered whether folks think that the

> 'mini' lap top scene has stabilised, and if there is now a consensus on

> a short list of things to look at.  I need something small enough to

> slip in a small brief case to take to meetings, easy to skip through

> multi-page documents on, decent battery life, not needed for much than

> (unfortunately) Windoze compatible documents, spreadsheets etc, web

> browse and email.  But not as small as a blackberry type thing.

> Possibility of touch typing with 'narrow fingers' an advantage.  I

> prefer it to be cheap enough not to get too upset if I lose/drop it.  If

> Bill Gates has ensured that Windoze XP is the cheapest option, I'll take

> his money and dual boot, or over-install a Linux OS.

>

> Any favourites out there.  Roger.



I've been eyeing up a Samsung NC10 for a long time now, I've recommended them to people

and all i've heard back is good words. At the moment i've got a EeePC 701, dirty cheap

now but the screen is a little small for regular use. Maybe one of the new 1000 series

would be a good pick if you want to go down the EeePC route.



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Andrew Williams

w: http://tensixtyone.com/

e: andy at tensixtyone.com


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