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In Search of the Cheap Linux Laptop
mr_mischief writes "According to Hot Hardware's recent review, Asus is getting ready to unleash a $199 compact notebook running Linux. This is entirely different from this recent $150 Linux laptop story which many Slashdot readers believed to be a scam. There's a dual-mode menu which offers a simple system for novice computer users, and a slightly more advanced version for others. It's not aimed squarely at the same market as the One Laptop Per Child project's XO, and is expected to be sold to end users worldwide. It's targeted at new users who don't own a computer or at people who want a cheap, small laptop for basic tasks. The reviewed version has a 7" screen and a cramped keyboard to match, but a 10" version is available for $100 more. It offers built-in wired and wireless networking, four USB 2.0 ports, and a three-hour battery life. The storage options are a bit cramped, as you only get 4 GB of on-board storage (8 GB on the $299 model) and no optical drive. As the review says, though, USB 2.0 can make up for that if you like, and the lack of moving drive parts makes the machine run dead quiet."
Oxymoron alert! Oxymoron alert!
Will it run windows? ;)
Most people in the US don't know what a millimeter is either
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First we get the "Wii", now we have the "Eee". What's next, "Oooeeyaaaeee"???
Your god may be dead, but mine aren't!
Not to quibble, but wouldn't that be $898, rather than $899?
Most people in the US don't know what a millimeter is either ;-).
Try telling them that a cigarette is about 100 mm.
It gets complicated using penises as a standard. There's this thing called net-inches...
Stevie420: Are you sure I'd like it? I've never done anything like that before
BillyG666: You'll love it. If I slapped it down on your keyboard it would go from A to Z
BillyG666: Oh shit...
It's too hard to tell what's up when a guy has a little one. Last week I met this guy with one the size of a golf pencil. I couldn't tell if he was trying to make love or trying to erase me...
We could only wish 50 Cent didn't exist.
Quit jabbering on the phone while driving. You are not that important.
The memory/drive/screen size may be too limiting for windows.
But I've never had a driver problem installing windows. The last time I did a windows install was w2k, but I had no problems installing it on my custom built computer or a compaq. The same computer, with the same hardware, Red Hat 4 wouldn't install, and after installing red hat 5, I had to recompile with mouse support. Metro X had some display problems and I needed to get an updated driver for xfree86 to support my card (Matrox Millenium II). BeOS didn't need any extra drivers (I intentionally purchased equipment they supported).
Find the correct drivers = insert the windows CD.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Touche!
"Some books contain the machinery required to create and sustain universes."-Tycho
Have you guys notice?
It comes with linux by default, yet its keyboard has the regular "windows flag" key...Wouldn't it make more sense to print a penguin on it instead?
Just my 50-cents (thickness of the device)
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
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Having a Penguin key (Penguin key sounds cooled than Tux key) would be sooooo cool. Imagine, ur mate is having a go, and needs to open the launch menu, and you say: "Just press the Penguin key man!" or he's sat there n he goes, where the windows key, and you say: "Windows key? Dude, this has a PENGUIN key." he would be like "WWWWWOOOOOOAH!!" like some crazy drug trip.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Why, the Windows Genuine Advantage, of course.
REally so windows now comes with the latest Nividia and Creative drivers out of the box? also Scsi cards and SATA is supported by default?
Wow! that damned out of date XP SP2 install CD's I have.. I knew that using such an aincent OS would bite me.
What benefit would a high spec laptop with Vista have for me? It'd just burn battery and heat up my genitals.
Considering a Vasectomy costs around $3400.00 you will be saving quite a bit of money.
See, VISTA is a good thing!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
> It'd just burn battery and heat up my genitals.
Dude, that's not a bug, it's a feature.
Transporter_ii
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality
most women is asia know what a millimeter is!
It's certainly not any worse than long-time Apple users called the "open-apple" key. Well, at least some did.
Because a slashperiod sounds like something you'd need a bigger tampax for.