ASUS Eee - deal you may know of

[Madison Kelly]

William Muriithi wrote:
> Hi pals,
> 
> I am  a little bit in a fix. I am just through a 20 minute fsck fixing
> a file system that was badly corrupt. This has been a norm for a
> while, but has become so frequent of late I am feeling really relieved
> after the laptop comes up again. The logs are full of hard disk errors
> and the file system remounted read only one too many a time. In a
> another word, this hard disk is in its last days.
> 
> That leave me with two options. Go out there and buy a new hard disk
> and somehow have it installed in the laptop. I messed my last laptop
> doing such repairs, though that time it was LCD which had failed. The
> experience however make me feel I would rather someone do it. That
> mean, by the time I am done with repair, $500 may be done.
> 
> That open up the second option, instead of repairing the current
> system, how about picking one of those inexpensive laptop? I am sure
> the life of this hard disk would be lengthened if its not switched on
> every evening, so I would still have access to my data. This option is
> looking really appealing and therefore the purpose of the post.
> 
> The way economy is going, one has to try and get as much value for
> every dollar as possible. I have noticed people posting really good
> computer deals in the past. Would anyone be aware of a current deal
> involving ASUS EEE? Which model offer the best value for the money? I
> am leaning toward the solid state disk to avoid my current pains in
> the future.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> William
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Here is the laptop I am using:

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=020510&cid=896.862

Though I agree with Clifford, replacing the hard drive should be pretty 
easy. As for Solid State, I'd hold off a little longer. I intentionally 
got the platter-drive figuring that the SSD was coming down in price and 
going up in speed/quality so fast that now wasn't the time to get it. I 
still feel that way.

As for the Eee, the 10" has a "big enough" screen, and the new Intel 
Atom 1.6GHz CPU is "fast enough" that, for the price, I feel it's a 
total win. The only time I find myself pining for more is with very 
complex documents (multiple tables, japanese and english characters, 
etc) and when I use Kate, which loads the KDE libraries while I'm 
running Gnome in Ubuntu 8.10 (8.04 was fine).

I bought this for the same reason you're thinking; I don't know where 
the economy was going so I decided to bank what I can and worry about 
"toys" later (which a laptop more capable than this would be, to me).

madi
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