[LAU] Opinions: Acer Aspire One w. 8Gb SSD

[david]

Justin Smith wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ernie Dulanowsky <ernst at pulsewidth.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Norval Watson <norv2001 at yahoo.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry, should've paid attention to your email domain.
>>> Apology not necessary, thanks for the input!
>>> Actually I'm meeting my brothers from USA in Paris in June (for a
>>> wedding).
>>> So I might be able to get one of them to bring an Eee across if I get it
>>> delivered to them in the States. It DOES seem to be better all round, apart
>>> from the keyboard which gets a few gripes on the Net.
>>> The 110V power supply would need a ten dollar 240V converter but that's no
>>> biggie.
>>>
>>> Norv
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Hi:
>> If you haven't looked at them yet it would be worth your while to investigae
>> the MSI Wind netbooks as well. I've had one since September and I'm very
>> happy with it, aside from the crap Realtek wireless card. Runs UbuntuStudio
>> quite well.
>>
>> cheers,
>> ernie
>>
>>
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> 
> Regarding the eeepc, I typed this on one, and I have large heavily
> calloused hands and fingertips (I work full time as a stockkeeper
> throwing boxes of clothing around all day), it just takes a while to
> get used to, but it is possible. At times I have used a full sized
> external usb keyboard, but eventually I just got used to this one, it
> took some patience though.
> 
> If you do get an eeepc, I recommend the debian eee extensions (and of
> course the multimedia repositories), their installer was a cinch and
> everything worked perfect, except for the X11 screen resolution that
> installed as 800x400 rather than the maximum 800x600 for my model, I
> will be trying to fix the resolution when I have some free time this
> weekend. Previously I was using ubuntu hardy (which the previous owner
> had installed), but the webcam was not working, nor suspend or the
> external monitor link, and the same default X11 resolution issues were
> there as well.

A friend of mine is running Debian's release for EEEPCs on a 901 and all 
of the above are working fine for him.

-- 
David
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