[Tfug] Netbooks and Linux - suggestions?

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:00:12PM +0800, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
>
>Anything particular against the Asus eeePCs? I just got a 1000HA recently
>and installed eeeBuntu and everything works great. 6 hours or better of
>battery life. It was advertised at around 9 hours, but I get six without
>turning anything off to save power and so forth. I haven't installed the
>straight Ubuntu NBR, but the eeeBuntu, which has the NBR on it, along with
>their own little tools and their custom-for-eeepc Array kernel. As I have
>been very pleased with it, I haven't tried the regular Ubuntu NBR.
>
>Matthew

Not at all, but, if I recall correctly from Best Buy (and I may be completely
wrong here), all of the eeePCs I saw used Intel's GMA 500 chipset for video.
As previously discussed, that thing should be avoided like the plague.
Anyway, perhaps I wrongly assumed that all eeePCs (or all current models) used
that chip?

Ah, just checked Newegg's selection.  I guess it was just a fluke because
Newegg has plenty of eeePCs that don't use the GMA 500.

So... I'll have to browse and compare though those as well, it seems.


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