[LMB] OT: AKICIF: New laptop search

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:29:09 +0200, "Francis Turner" <francis.turner at gmail.com>
wrote, in response to Ed Burkhead:

> You could look at the Asus EEE and its fellow tiny notebooks. The
> eee is now (about to be?) availale with windows XP as well as Linux.
> Its cheap and very light.

> One review of the asus eee 900 is here -
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/04/16/Asus-Eee-PC-900/p1

> I personally use an asus 701 4g that I bought in January. Its great
> for travelling and with an external screen (and keyboard if you want)
> is perfectly fine as a low power websurfing home machine.

I'd second this recommendation. I've played with an EEE, although I have not yet bought one; the Linux distro they run is a Xandros variant, and Xandros is about the most user-friendly for Windows refugees. I would not bother getting XP on one.

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