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I'm waiting for a 9" ASUS Eee instead. Dirt cheap so it won't matter when the TSA drops it (my PowerBook got a nice dent the corner), small enough to unfold in
by notauser 19y ago
I'm waiting for a 9" ASUS Eee instead. Dirt cheap so it won't matter when the TSA drops it (my PowerBook got a nice dent the corner), small enough to unfold in economy seats, and all the hardware works with Linux out of the box :)
- wallflower 19y agoI couldn't wait for a 9" Asus EEE, so I ebay'd the 8" 8g one. I love it. It's the size and heft of a hardback book - you can literally run out the door and grab it. Not having to worry that much about shock damage and defragmentation makes the limited SD-only storage worth it. Girls think it's cute too (sometimes it's good to be different - MacBooks are as vanilla as some guy's default personalities)
- pius 19y agoCool, how's the performance? What do you use it for?
- wallflower 19y ago1) Learning to code Ruby on Rails 2) A coffee shop companion 3) 1 and 2 The performance isn't great - about that of a 4 to 5-yr old low-end notebook, not a pressing issue as long as I don't care about it / learn to breathe. Occasionally I wonder what the SD disk is doing thrashing (even though I can't hear it - no moving parts -see the little blinking LED). I'm not doing anything processor-intensive just hacking/googling my way around the unfamiliar neighborhood of Ruby on Rails. As a distraction, YouTube videos play fine. I have Windows XP installed (so I can tunnel into the corporate VPN) - the Ubuntu should perform for coding much, much better.