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

[Hampus Linden]

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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