[SWLUG] recommendations for a netbook...

[Jon Reynolds]

Did you get on in the end?

I have an Advent 4213 (I believe) and it runs Ubuntu brilliantly. At
first there were some issues with the ATI graphics but only if I tried
to run full screen apps, but this was on 9.04 (full desktop version).

Recently been using 9.10 netbook remix, which is rather funky,
fullscreen problem seems resolved, but I think I will go back to a
normal desktop version... we'll see.

My only gripe is that it didn't come with bluetooth. 

Came with 160GB HDD and 1GB RAM... rather worried that they seem to be
only 99 GBP at the mo... I paid 250GBP last year.

Jon Reynolds

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:53:21PM +0000, Gerald Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:52, Sam Radion <sam at samradion.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I have an eeepc (early model)
> 
> 701?
> 
> 901 is/was the daddy of netbooks IMHO. had hackability to go with it.
> still love mine to bits and use it very regularly.  less so the 701,
> but it depends on how packed my rucksack is :)
> 
> the only thing to consider is size vs portability, unless you want to
> run hackintosh distros (i think the Dell model was good for that.)
> 
> the problem seems to be that netbooks are slowly becoming bog standard
> cheap laptops... increasing in size, which is why i've stuck with the
> 901 for so long.
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