[Tfug] Netbooks and Linux - suggestions?

[Marco Savo]

I'd like to add, for dell mini 10 and 10v (and probably a lot of these 10.1
inch netbooks):
The keyboard is almost full size, 92%, but the monitor could be bigger, left
a whole inch around the screen ( I guess you can fit a whole 11.6" there).
Mine take a whole minute to boot (autologin), I whould have preferred an SSD
hard drive (someone claim ubuntu would boot in 20s)

I would have preferred an Eee PC 8.9" with atom 270 and SSD Hard Drive, two
weeks ago was on ebay for 150$, (I couldn't find it anymore!!!)
that's really light and small to have around, or the Dell mini 9, but it's
not on the market anymore...

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Marco Savo <savomarco at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I *wrongly* bought a dell mini 10, with GMA500, because at the end has a
> better battery, (smaller and 28w/hr) better screen and with a better lasting
> processor, but HAS GMA500. The problem is that the driver are proprietary,
> not even made from Intel, I got Ubuntu working on it, everything works fine
> now but I'm not able to watch videos on youtube (I don't know if you're able
> to do it on GMA950)
> You can buy a Dell mini 10v for 239 dollars on dell outlet, 160 GB HD !GB
> Ram Atom N270 1.6 GHz:
>
>
> http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh
> (order by price)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Bowie J. Poag<bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dell Inspiron Mini 10V. We love ours. $325 at Best Buy.
>> >
>> > It also happens to be 100% Hackintosh-compatible, so you can
>> > dual-and-then-some boot between Linux/Winblows/OS X. :)
>> >
>> > Looks good, too.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Bowie
>>
>> At first I thought I was going to have to chew Bowie out, but no: the
>> 10v has the Intel 945 video chipset which is Linux compatible and good
>> enough for a two-pane Compiz "cube" (really a flat plane you flip over
>> for two desktops).  The new Intel driver stack now fully sorted out in
>> Karmic will work with it.  Not Intel's fastest chip but it's probably
>> their most stable - moreso than the 965 for sure.  I ran a machine
>> with that chip for a while, worked damned good, Rocco has it now :).
>>
>> The Mini-10 without the "v" is to be avoided at all costs, that's the
>> one with the GMA500 turd-disguised-as-a-video-chip thing.
>>
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> Marco Savo
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>
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'The Magic Is In the Movement'

Marco Savo
SW Engineer

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Tucson, AZ 85719
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