another netbook deal

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
| Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
| To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
| Subject: Re: [TLUG]: another netbook deal
| 
| Neil Watson wrote:
| >> FWIW, I had been working with a VIA-based netbook that was not HP. The
| >> X.org drivers for it are proprietary AND flaky, and the company shows
| >> little interest in making the situation better. Even at $200 the system
| >> is IMO not worth it.
| >
| > Shameless fanboy-ing
| > My eeepc has no driver problems.  It even runs Compiz.
| 
| So? EeePCs never used VIA, they went from Celeron to Atom.
| I have and love my 1000HE, but VIA C7-based netbooks are a totally
| different story.
| 
| What's the fanboy component?

I think it goes like this:

He feels he's kind of bragging/off-topic when he says that the EeePC
(Intel-based) just works compared with the woe you describe with Via
chips.  So he's softening it with a self-accusation of being a fanboy.

Kind of polite, actually.
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