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Re: [News] [Missing Subject?] Sun Raves about Asus EeePC

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Missing Subject?] Sun Raves about Asus EeePC
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:30:29 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Is this the greatest laptop ever made?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | IT'S not often I get so excited about a gadget delivery that I keep
> | my eyes peeled for the postman.
> |
> | But when I heard an ASUS EEE PC was on the way, I was desperate to
> | get my hands on it and start tapping away.
> `----
> 
> http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gizmo/article495677.ece

Compiz on EeePC:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzzhEs9XGuE

Let's see this 900Mhz celery machine run Aero ... ha!

According to this blogger, who rather bravely shoehorned Vista onto the
EeePC, it scores a "Windows Experience Index" of just *1*!!!

http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=751842

Oh well, Linux it /is/ then.

In addition to the Debian/Xandros based distro, and now Ubuntu, expect a
Fedora based distro soon:

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=27019

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
 10:28:58 up 12 days,  7:22,  1 user,  load average: 4.30, 4.58, 4.77

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