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From: Monica Borg on 3 Dec 2009 11:08 Hello, I am contemplating purchasing a relatively cheap netbook that I can carry around with me. I have been contemplating the following models: Asus 1005HA 10-inch Netbook £269.99 Sony VAIO W12S1EW 10.1-inch Netbook £379.39 HP Mini 110-1115SA Black Swirl 10.1-inch £278.97 I would like to know which one of these would be best for running a dual system with Linux. I know the Sony has a better screen quality which is why it is somewhat more expensive I think. The Asus and the HP are about the same (lower screen quality than the sony vaio) but the asus has no blutooth while the HP does (but for whatever reason I found no rating on amazon for the HP). Well, so I am not sure which one is best. Any suggestions as to strength and weaknesses of these laptops especially with regards to running Linux would be appreciated. Thanks, John Goche
From: ray on 3 Dec 2009 11:43 On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:08:11 -0800, Monica Borg wrote: > Hello, > > I am contemplating purchasing a relatively cheap netbook that I can > carry around with me. I have been contemplating the following models: > > Asus 1005HA 10-inch Netbook > £269.99 > > Sony VAIO W12S1EW 10.1-inch Netbook > £379.39 > > HP Mini 110-1115SA Black Swirl 10.1-inch £278.97 > > I would like to know which one of these would be best for running a dual > system with Linux. I know the Sony has a better screen quality which is > why it is somewhat more expensive I think. The Asus and the HP are about > the same (lower screen quality than the sony vaio) but the asus has no > blutooth while the HP does (but for whatever reason I found no rating on > amazon for the HP). > > Well, so I am not sure which one is best. Any suggestions as to strength > and weaknesses of these laptops especially with regards to running Linux > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > John Goche I can only relate our personal experience. I got an Asus eeepc for my wife for Christmas last year. This was purchased from bestbuy.com. It's one of the very elementary models - 4gb solid state disk - 1gb RAM and ATOM processor. It came with a brain damaged xandros Linux in place. Neither one of us cared for the interface etc. so - I installed Debian from the instructions at the Debian eeepc wiki. It was a piece of cake. Put the basic net install ISO on a flash drive and installed. Everything worked out of the box - including the wireless that worked from the moment we booted from the flash drive. After installing, doing updates and a little cleaning, there is about 1.6gb left free on the SSD. I've also added an SD card which is permanently installed (as far as I'm concerned) and contains the /home directory. IMHO - your best bet is probably to get a netbook with some version of Linux installed.
From: Darren Salt on 3 Dec 2009 11:23 I demand that Monica Borg may or may not have written... > that I can carry around with me. I have been contemplating > the following models: > Asus 1005HA 10-inch Netbook > �269.99 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA > Sony VAIO W12S1EW 10.1-inch Netbook > �379.39 > HP Mini 110-1115SA Black Swirl 10.1-inch > �278.97 Couldn't say... > I would like to know which one of these would be best for running a dual > system with Linux. I know the Sony has a better screen quality which is why > it is somewhat more expensive I think. That and the name, I suspect. > The Asus and the HP are about the same (lower screen quality than the sony > vaio) but the asus has no blutooth while the HP does (but for whatever > reason I found no rating on amazon for the HP). Bluetooth can be added easily enough and cheaply enough, though I do agree that built-in is better. (It'll be a USB device either way, though.) > Well, so I am not sure which one is best. Any suggestions as to strength > and weaknesses of these laptops especially with regards to running Linux > would be appreciated. Well... no serious problems with my 901 at present. I don't say no problems: I'm running somewhat closer to the bleeding edge than you'll probably be doing. -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://www.xine-project.org/ You will step on the night soil of many countries.
From: Jerry Peters on 3 Dec 2009 16:59 ray <ray(a)zianet.com> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:08:11 -0800, Monica Borg wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am contemplating purchasing a relatively cheap netbook that I can >> carry around with me. I have been contemplating the following models: >> >> Asus 1005HA 10-inch Netbook >> �269.99 >> >> Sony VAIO W12S1EW 10.1-inch Netbook >> �379.39 >> >> HP Mini 110-1115SA Black Swirl 10.1-inch �278.97 >> >> I would like to know which one of these would be best for running a dual >> system with Linux. I know the Sony has a better screen quality which is >> why it is somewhat more expensive I think. The Asus and the HP are about >> the same (lower screen quality than the sony vaio) but the asus has no >> blutooth while the HP does (but for whatever reason I found no rating on >> amazon for the HP). >> >> Well, so I am not sure which one is best. Any suggestions as to strength >> and weaknesses of these laptops especially with regards to running Linux >> would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> John Goche > > I can only relate our personal experience. I got an Asus eeepc for my > wife for Christmas last year. This was purchased from bestbuy.com. It's > one of the very elementary models - 4gb solid state disk - 1gb RAM and > ATOM processor. It came with a brain damaged xandros Linux in place. > Neither one of us cared for the interface etc. so - I installed Debian > from the instructions at the Debian eeepc wiki. It was a piece of cake. > Put the basic net install ISO on a flash drive and installed. Everything > worked out of the box - including the wireless that worked from the > moment we booted from the flash drive. After installing, doing updates > and a little cleaning, there is about 1.6gb left free on the SSD. I've > also added an SD card which is permanently installed (as far as I'm > concerned) and contains the /home directory. > > IMHO - your best bet is probably to get a netbook with some version of > Linux installed. Similiar situation only with an Acer Aspire 1. The preinstalled Linpus was a PITA so I installed my custom laptop Slackware on it. Had to rebuild the kernel to set some special settings for the AA1 but everything works nicely. I did add 1GB of ram to the measly 512MB that came with the machine. Jerry
From: Frank Steinmetzger on 3 Dec 2009 16:56
Monica Borg schrob: > > Hello, > > I am contemplating purchasing a relatively cheap netbook > that I can carry around with me. I have been contemplating > the following models: > > Asus 1005HA 10-inch Netbook > £269.99 > > Sony VAIO W12S1EW 10.1-inch Netbook > £379.39 > > HP Mini 110-1115SA Black Swirl 10.1-inch > £278.97 I presume the Vaio has a fairly good quality, but Sony is know for bad service. Can't tell much about the rest though. In case this is of relevance to you: the Samsung N-Series has a non-glossy screen. The N140, over the N130, has internal Bluetooth and stereo speakers and, most importantly, they have a superior battery life of about or even more than 9 hours. Also, in the Euro-zone they're cheaper than competing models of other vendors, which might be true on the Island as well. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Think I can't do it? I'm not half as smart as you are! |