"mini" PC's, SSD's, and Linux

[Tyler Aviss]

The second SD slot sounds like a nice feature. How do you find the
battery life on that one?

Another I noticed today is the Dell mini 9 or mini 10, which seem to
have some flavor of ubuntu installed.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Scott Sullivan<scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The Acer Aspire One has all your looking for but with only a 8gig SSD and
> linux already installed.
> There has been a hardware revision since I bought mine 8 months ago, so
> there might be one with a larger SSD.
>
> I've lugged mine around a lot too and it holds up, plus it has a second SD
> slot for storage expansion and one the better keyboards out there.
>
> ¢2
>
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> Scott Sullivan
>
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:51:32PM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've been looking at upgrading from my EEE700. The SSD is a bit
>>> smallish at 4GB, and it seems that most of the bigger ones available
>>> only work on the 900's and above from what I've been seeing online.
>>> That, and the SSD's are almost half the price of a new unit.
>>>
>>> Anyone know a machine along the lines of an EEE which still has SSD's
>>> (the newer ones seem to be all HDD's again). As I lug my machine
>>> around a fair bit, the impact-resistance and low consumption of the
>>> SSD is somewhat preferable.
>>>
>>> Optimal specs: something with an Atom CPU, 1024x600 screen, 16GB+ SSD,
>>> wifi/cardreader/cam, and of course Linux-friendly drivers.
>>>
>>> Ideas/suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> I haven't seen one.  SSD's are still rather expensive unfortunately.
>>
>>
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