Re: [tlug] Netbooks

[s smith <sjs@example.com>]

On 2/1/2010 6:39 PM, Darren Cook wrote:
> The 100 yen models: (or bought outside the package: 34,800 or 39,800)
>   Acer Aspire-one: 3.5rs, 160G, Win XP
>   Lenovo: 6hrs, 250G, Win 7
>   Asus 1005HA: 10hrs, 160G, Win XP
> ...
>
> The 1024x600 was fine for reading an A4 PDF (i.e. no need for left/right
> scrolling, though of course there will be up/down scrolling).
>    
I have the american version of the Aspire-one with the 10.1 inch screen 
running XP with the 6 cell battery.  I'm very happy with it.  I use 
cygwin for shell (doesn't work with utf however) and gvim for text edit, 
open office, firefox and thunderbird.  I'd be totally satisfied if the 
dosish command line tools and io could handle unicode.  All the 
non-dosish tools work fine with utf except for some quirks with perl and 
utf-16 file names.

I think that several of the linux releases will work on this box but 
don't intend to go that route.

They claim 8 hours out of the 6 cell battery.  Mine has never died and I 
use it regularly for 5 or 6 hours.

My only complaint is that it's almost useless outside because of the 
reflective screen.

Steve S.