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Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS

Posted by timothy on from the utterly-completely-impossible dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Tired of paying the Windows tax on notebooks? Asus's Eee PC 1201T budget ultraportable comes without a traditional operating system and sells for only $380. The 12-inch system has promising specifications, sporting an Athlon Neo processor, Radeon HD 3200 graphics, Bluetooth, and 802.11n Wi-Fi. It weighs just 3.2lbs with a 6-cell battery and can even handle light gaming duties. However, battery life in Ubuntu is considerably shorter than it is under Windows. Are there any better options for would-be laptop Linux users?"

12 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Re:$380? by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ultraportable notebook=/=netbook. Netbooks are passe now that we have iPads. PCs are passe now that we have iPads. Thinking for oneself is passe now that we have iPads.

  2. And... by Nomaxxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    It Also Comes Sans Serif.

  3. -1 Offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck you for even bringing up the fucking iPad.

    1. Re:-1 Offtopic by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 5, Funny

      Didn't you hear? Fucking is passe now that we have iPads and freedom from porn.

  4. Re:"Traditional Operating System" by Jorl17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    One that's old, stupid, popular and yet used by millions of people.

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  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:$380? by theaveng · · Score: 2, Funny

    CherryPal? Is that like the PearPods on iCarly? i.e. non-existent

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  7. This will definitely kill the iPad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Consumers will finally be able to install what every Linux distro desired in order to write code, inexpensively.

    Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

  8. Re:"Traditional Operating System" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Expressgate is to traditional OS as Knara is to traditional human being. Expressgate can do simple things, like browse the web, but is incapable of more advanced tasks, similar to how Knara can (apparently) browse the web, but fails at more complex tasks like thinking.

  9. Re:$380? by BobMcD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now as for power issues in Linux: please RTFUPMDFAOTWAKSAM ("Read the f-ing Ubuntu power management documentation found all over the web and kindly stop annoying me")

    PUSABYATLAATCOORISATFO/.

    ("Please use shorter acronyms because yours are too long and annoy the crap out of reasonable individuals such as those found on slashdot")

  10. Oh no! What do I do now? by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    if it doesn't have an OS, how do I denigrate its existence?

    signed, /.

  11. Re:Just pa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    does that mean that it could both suck and blow?