tipc
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any thoughts? No raves here, but for 200$ I guess no major complaints. I wish mine was black . A bit quirky. Like yer mini goofy laptop away from yer laptop I guess.
I have a 700 something model which I use very infrequently. Miniature keyboard yes, but that is part of the package. I only wish I had spent the money on a 900 model with the somewhat larger screen. Mine runs Windows XP Light or whatever it is called, a custom made installation not supported by Microsoft. At least it fits within the 4 GB of SSD memory. I also have upgraded RAM from 512MB to 2GB, which may be a necessity to run Windows XP.
In order to make this topic a little less brand centric, I propose netbooks in general could be discussed. I'm feeling some of the competitors going for 9" then 10" screens, conventional hard drives and higher priced somewhat are missing the target. Or perhaps they're finding other customer groups than the very first Eee PCs did. If you want a really light computer that is relatively insensitive to bumps, larger screens and regular HDDs don't seem to make sense to me.
In particular if you have virtually no hard disk space for a swap file. My XP installation with practically no applications except those built into the operating system takes about 3 GB out of the 4 GB total capacity. Then you want some space for temporary files, settings etc so the 2 GB RAM is handy to avoid using all of the remaining "hard disk" space for swap.XP with 512MB can be a pain if what you are doing requires a bit of memory.
Without starting a flame war, perhaps I'm not so impressed by various Linux dists as desktop operating systems? I once had a Debian distro installed on my PC. At one point I needed to update the software through the dselect mechanism, and it ended with my whole XFree86 installation got corrupted. Basically it was some window manager whose license had changed since the previous version, and instead of warning the user and keeping software breaking the GNU/FSF "seal", the update process outright removed it from my computer, making most of my Linux experience useless until I had figured out a way to get around it. Say what you want about Microsoft Windows, but as far as I know Windows Update would never remove legitimate software at own will just because the company who made it doesn't adhere to M$ own policies.why Windows Carlsson??? It comes w/Linux.