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From: John Stumbles on 21 Jul 2010 17:49 .... if you had to choose between 1 Compaq Mini 311c-1101SA 2 Acer Aspire ONE D250-OBK 3 Toshiba NB250 10G (I've been offered that choice .. it's a long story.) Not necessarily to run Linux on - it's mainly for SWMBO so it just needs to work at minimal effort on my part. Just asking here because people are more likely to be clued up than on windoze ngs :-) Main requirement is to Just Work for email & web browsing and be reliable and robust. -- John Stumbles Xenophobia? Sounds a bit foreign to me.
From: Gordon Henderson on 22 Jul 2010 04:37 In article <8ap8b5FvrfU1(a)mid.individual.net>, John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >... if you had to choose between >1 Compaq Mini 311c-1101SA >2 Acer Aspire ONE D250-OBK >3 Toshiba NB250 10G > >(I've been offered that choice .. it's a long story.) > >Not necessarily to run Linux on - it's mainly for SWMBO so it just needs >to work at minimal effort on my part. Just asking here because people are >more likely to be clued up than on windoze ngs :-) > >Main requirement is to Just Work for email & web browsing and be reliable >and robust. I'd go for the one with the nicest keyboard. I have an oldish Acer Aspire One - which I run Debian Lenny on. Works for me, anyway. (however I have the latest & greatest firefox rather than Iceweasel) Wifey uses same firefox but also Icedove for email on hers. Gordon
From: Tony Houghton on 21 Jul 2010 21:38 In <8ap8b5FvrfU1(a)mid.individual.net>, John Stumbles <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > ... if you had to choose between > 1 Compaq Mini 311c-1101SA > 2 Acer Aspire ONE D250-OBK > 3 Toshiba NB250 10G > > (I've been offered that choice .. it's a long story.) > > Not necessarily to run Linux on - it's mainly for SWMBO so it just needs > to work at minimal effort on my part. Just asking here because people are > more likely to be clued up than on windoze ngs :-) > > Main requirement is to Just Work for email & web browsing and be reliable > and robust. The Compaq has a 1366x768 screen, which makes quite a big difference. I've got one and would choose it again over those alternatives with smaller screens. But be prepared to have to use a real mouse with it instead of the trackpad. It uses a new protocol for no apparent reason, which nobody seems to have managed to reverse engineer for Linux so far to provide a separate sensitivity setting and corner taps etc. It appears as a standard PS/2 device with scrolling so it's usable in an emergency but even at GNOME's maximum speed setting it's too slow. I've barely used Windows on it, but it seems little better there despite having a supported driver. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
From: Alan Secker on 28 Jul 2010 05:31 John Stumbles wrote: > ... if you had to choose between > 1 Compaq Mini 311c-1101SA > 2 Acer Aspire ONE D250-OBK > 3 Toshiba NB250 10G > > (I've been offered that choice .. it's a long story.) > > Not necessarily to run Linux on - it's mainly for SWMBO so it just needs > to work at minimal effort on my part. Just asking here because people are > more likely to be clued up than on windoze ngs :-) > > Main requirement is to Just Work for email & web browsing and be reliable > and robust. > > I've had an Asus PC901 for a couple of years. At one point the screen died along with some of the rest. Asus were fantastic, collected, provided labels and returned within a few days. It now has the latest PCLinuxOS 2010 which runs beautifully. Prior to that it has had everything including VirtualBox over Mandriva 2009.0 with XP as a guest. It worked but it was too fiddly for work so I took it off. If I was choosing today, I would go for an Asus but one with a 10.6 inch screen that extra screen real estate would make a huge difference. One reservation though, I will not do so until I find one with HDMI output. BOL Alan
From: Tony Houghton on 28 Jul 2010 11:08
In <i2ot95$bhq$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk> wrote: > If I was choosing today, I would go for an Asus but one with a 10.6 inch > screen that extra screen real estate would make a huge difference. It does, but usually only if it's a higher resolution than 1024*600 (depending on your eyesight). Many 10-11" netbooks still have the lower resolution because Intel made it a condition of using the most common Atom chipset that the resolution must not exceeed that. The higher resolutions are only available with the Intel GMA500 or NVidia Ion graphics chips. The former has poor Linux driver support and reviews I've seen suggest it's no great shakes in Windows either, failing to provide adequate acceleration for HD video etc. > One reservation though, I will not do so until I find one with HDMI output. My Compaq 311c has HDMI, but I don't know whether it's available on all the variants, including the one on the OP's shortlist. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |