I almost bought one of those on Saturday. Would you keep a regular laptop after buying one of these? Would you consider it a replacement for the laptop, an alternative or just a cool toy?
I tried one of the EeePCs and the keys were small enough I can't see using it for everything. In fact I ended up not getting one of those and just waited and got a full-size laptop.
Brian Kelsay
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Billy Crook Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:58 PM To: KCLUG Subject: Acer Aspire One
The GNU+Linux 'NetBook' may easily become Linux' home in everyday consumer electronics. At least sofar as desktop applications. The eeepc started the trend, and now dozens of other vendors are jumping in. Intel, AMD, and nVidia even, are making chips just for this market. Check out the Intel Atom CPU in it's picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom. Wow.
I bought an Acer Aspire One to play with at the LUG and to give to a family member at Christmas. It's one of the first Intel Atom Netbooks out there. It comes with a distro called Linpus, which is an ofshoot of Fedora. I actually plan to, compare it with Ubuntu Netbook Edition, and the Fedora 10 version of its own packages. Any thoughts on what elseyou want to see it do would be welcome. I just bought it today, so I will not likely have it by the meeting Wednesday. But I should have it the next three meetings after that, and will be using it myself intermittently.
http://www.acer.com/aspireone/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspire_One
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