[aklug] Re: Netbooks

Thanks Jacob!
A friend of mine as an EEE PC of some model. I remember having a hard time
with the shift key, among other things.

These are exactly the kinds of things I'm looking for. Again, thank you.

-Kurt

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Jacob Gemmell <evilbob333@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have had both the EEE PC 701 and the EEE PC 901. Both both were great
> for
> travel, both had excellent battery life, both had a keyboard that was just
> to small. They are great for reading stuff, web pages, email,etc. The
> 901's high resolution was a big improvement. Especially when it came to
> getting more text on the screen. But as far as content generation, the
> keyboards were just too small. A friend of mine got a 10" MSI Wind, and
> the
> keyboard on that was much better for extended typing. For my next netbook,
> keyboard size is definatley going to be a higher consideration. My next
> consideration would be storage. Keeping in the spirit of things, I prefer
> SSD's on my netbooks. I am not sure if it is the fact that it is more
> resiliant or that they use less power, or if I imagine they use less power.
> In anycase, using this as secondary computer, you shouldn't have a need for
> lots of drive space, unless you are pulling your entire music or movie
> library. Finally battery life. I have gotten over five hours using my
> 901. That is great sitting in a coffee shop leeching of the wireless and
> not worrying about power. Screen size and resolution are almost the same
> across the board, though you will probably wind up getting a 10" netbook
> for
> the keyboard rather than the screen.
>
> The default OS that came with both devices was adequate. More so on the
> EEE
> PC 701 because of the screen size. It was easy to use. It has Mozilla
> Firefox (2.07), OpenOffice, a couple of games....It didn't last long. I
> slapped one flavor of ubuntu on it or another. There was a huge boost when
> running Firefox 3. I am runnig eeebuntu on mine 901 right now. With
> Jaunty
> coming out, I may reinstalling soon. Prior to buying a netbook, I would
> recomend checking to see what issues your favorite distro might have with
> it
> and how to fix it. For the 901, default ubuntu didn't support either the
> wireless or ethernet NICs. Also if you are using SSD's there are some
> filesystem considerations. There are some tweaks you want to do for SSD's
> to improve performance and extend the life of your drive.
>
>
> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/
>
> The more ram the better especially if you are mounting your /tmp in ram.
>
> That's just my thoughts.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Kurt Mathews <skidriprekah@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I have some review sites that I'm going to pull information from. My goal
> > in
> > asking the group is to find personal opinions of the products, not so
> much
> > a
> > hardware comparison. Has anyone been using them for business or school,
> and
> > how has that worked out? Things like that.
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ben Everitt <ben.everitt@acsalaska.net
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Kurt Mathews wrote:
> > > > Hey all!
> > > > I'm writing a brief paper on netbooks for school and was hoping to
> get
> > > > personal experience reports or opinions from you folks. Which models
> > are
> > > > good right now, and why? I'm mostly interested in whats on the market
> > now
> > > to
> > > > keep a focus for the paper.
> > > >
> > > > All comments appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > -Kurt
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > The last three months of Maximum PC have reviewed them, and wired
> > > Magazine has reviews this month. Both would be an excellent place to
> > > start. I've personally found that while the 9's are great PC's, I'm
> > > comfortable with a 10 but the 9 for some reason is just too small.
> > >
> > > -Ben
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