ASUS EEE with 8.9 inch screen at Cebit 2008

[Alex Maynard]

Dear All,

I have a couple of colleagues who bought the Asus EE but are otherwise new 
to linux. (BTW, Seems Asus is doing a lot to spread linux, at least at my 
office).

Anyway, they want to add software and update their systems. Before I give 
them the wrong advice and turn them off linux, I just wanted to double 
check that the pre-installed version of (I think) xandos + EE 
customization can be safely updated by apt-get? Can any one confirm 
this? I'm particularly worried about the EE customization part. Thanks 
very much.

Alex


On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:17:03PM -0500, ted leslie wrote:
>> http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3523905&body=MAIN#detailspecs
>>
>> i love the Eee i just got to , at 400$
>> I got some tiger direct junk mail today and checked it out,
>> and , well for 200$ more ... that lenovo just blows the Eee away,
>> but maybe its a limited lost leader sale.
>>
>> I think the Eee is more durable, but i am having real difficultly with the keyboard,
>> i type fast and it simply doesn't seem to capture all my strokes on it.
>>
>> I was thinking of getting a 2nd Eee for my wife, as she like the Eee i just bought,
>> but the lenovo for 600$ ... its going to be very hard to pass up.
>
> Somehow comparing a 15.4" standard laptop against an ultra portable with
> everything squished into almost no space just isn't fair.  The Eee is
> much smaller and easier to carry in your bag with you at all times,
> unlike a giant laptop like that (and 15.4" laptops are giant, now that
> my wife switched to the 13" tablet. :)  The Eee is also solid state disk
> rather than a harddrive which makes it more durable (and a lot smaller
> in disk space).  Hard to compare though.  A 16GB solid state disk can
> cost $500 which would already make the laptop cost a lot more given the
> disk it comes with is close to $100.  I guess the 4GB in the Eee is
> probably ssimilar in cost to the 160GB drive if you bought it
> seperately (Asus likely pays a lot less).
>
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