[Cialug] eee PC

[Adk]

I bought a Nokie N800 when CDW dropped price in Dec for $253. Love it. Great
pocket gizmo.

Allen
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From: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] eee PC
Date: 01/02/08 11:43

> On Feb 1, 2008 10:38 AM, James Shoemaker &lt;james at dhlake.com&gt; wrote:
> Brandon Griffis wrote:&gt; I have a friend on another Linux list that
won&#39;t shut up about them. &nbsp;But&gt; honestly I don&#39;t get it.
&nbsp;If it were really an inexpensive option, then yes&gt; it&#39;d be
rather interesting. &nbsp;But you can get a &quot;real&quot; laptop for
&lt;$400 these
> &gt; days. &nbsp;If they were really the initially advertised $200 then
it&#39;d be&gt; interesting, but as most are pushing $400 or more I really
don&#39;t see the&gt; point. &nbsp; Where&#39;s the $400 laptop with 3.5 hr
battery life, or even 2.5 hr
> battery life? &nbsp;That weighs what the eee does. &nbsp;And is as small
as theeee is. &nbsp; It&#39;s the battery life and size that attract me to
the eee, not justthe price.&gt; I do think there&#39;s a market for
something like this if they can put a decent
> &gt; size screen on it and give at least 4GB for the OS and still keep it
around&gt; $200. &nbsp;But so far nothing I&#39;ve seen comes close. &nbsp;
What&#39;s a decent sized screen? &nbsp;One of the big advantages of the
eee,
> it&#39;s small size, if you make the screen much larger it would have
tomake the whole thing bigger.I got to play with one a little in November.
It was in some Asian language so I couldn&#39;t get the full effect, but
really, the screen was pretty nice. The size of the screen and keyboard felt
good. It was obvious you were using a tiny notebook but it should get the
work done.
> I think the price holds it back. At $199 - 249 they&#39;d sell like
hotcakes.Of course, the real question is, what can you do with these that
makes them valuable? For me, I don&#39;t write that many documents or
spreadsheets on the go. If I wanted something to check my e-mail I&#39;d use
a blackberry or similar. If I wanted to surf the web then I&#39;d hold out
for one of the devices coming on the heals of the iphone that have a
cellular data connection and also work like a phone or a device like the
Nokia N series that uses wifi but still fits in a pocket. If I want to play
games, do graphics work or write code I really need a bigger machine (screen
and horse power). If anything, this device is too big.
> I will say that if you&#39;re looking for a linux based mobile computer
that can fit in your pocket, you don&#39;t have to wait long. There are a
ton being engineered now. Soon, maybe this year, there will be far more
Linux &quot;devices&quot; (computers, MIDs, phones, etc) than Windows
devices.
> -- Matthew Nuzumnewz2000 on freenode
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