[Gllug] Speaking of those tiny "laptops" ...

[Caroline Ford]

If you get a wind or an advent there is a large modding/linux community:

http://wiki.msiwind.net/index.php/Main_Page

http://wiki.msiwind.net/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04_Hardy_Heron
http://wiki.msiwind.net/index.php/OpenSuse_11.0
http://forums.msiwind.net/post20871.html

Some people have even put OSX Leopard on them ;)

Caroline

2008/8/25 Hampus Linden <hampus.linden at gmail.com>:
> I've got the Aspire one and it's pretty alright for general use.
> The touchpad buttons are a bit to hard sometimes and more annoyingly the fan
> control seems to be broken in the default Ubuntu install, even the default
> Linpus OS couldn't do it very well. There is a "acerfand" shell script that
> can sort of fix it but seems like a hack.
> Another thing is that position of the DIMM slot, under the motherboard as
> usual, but NO hatch so disasemlbing the whole unit is required to install
> more RAM.
> Except that everything is peachy, the screen is bright and very good. Decent
> size keyboard, 120Gb HDD or 8Gb SSD.
> All the hardware works out of the box with Ubuntu 8.04 (except the mentiond
> fan issue)
> Most important, it's very very pretty.
> Good price point too.
>
> -Hampus
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Caroline Ford
> <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The Advent 4211 is identical to the MSI Wind and considerably cheaper.
>> Mine is fine, but there is an issue with cheaper touchpads in some of
>> them.
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>> 2008/8/25 Christopher Hunter <chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>> > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 16:59 +0100, Dylan wrote:
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> A friend of mine wants to get one of the extra-small "laptops" and
>> >> keeps
>> >> pressing me for opinions. So guys, what opinions can I pass on to him
>> >> to
>> >> guide a good purchase when he finaly succumbs to the gadget-lust?
>> >>
>> >> Dx
>> >
>> > I have a 901 here, and it's all I wanted from a tiny machine.  I was
>> > disappointed with the 701, despite its good performance, because the
>> > screen was just too small.  The 901 gets it just right (though I hope
>> > the price comes down a bit).
>> >
>> > It's trivially easy to add extra memory, USB ports and SDD inside the
>> > machine, and I find that the supplied Xandros is OK, but it runs so much
>> > faster if you install Puppy Linux.
>> >
>> > It might be worth waiting for the price to drop a bit.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >
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