[Tfug] Netbooks and Linux - suggestions?

[Matthew Patenaude]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>wrote:

> 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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Hmmm, I was under the impression mine was not, but I'll double check to see.
I have had absolutely no graphics problems or instabilities, at any rate.

Matthew
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