[TriLUG] Asus Eee PC linux laptop?

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 19:54:58 EDT 2007


On 8/4/07, J.C. Jones <jonesjc at intrex.net> wrote:
>  From Asus' website
>
> http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7405
>
> An Easy Price to Swallow
> Hsih also stated that ASUS plans to start shipping the units in July or
> August, with a target of selling 200,000 units this year – all under the
> ASUS brand. Amid gasps from the audience, the Eee PC units were revealed
> to come in at an extremely competitive price of around USD $199 for the
> 7" units, and about USD $299 for the 10" version.
>
> jcj
>
> Greg Brown wrote:
>
> >Anyone following the Asus Eee PC (laptop) thread?  I'm having a hard time
> >trying to figure out if the laptop is going to be $200.00 (us) or FunkyL
> >200.00 (british pounds).  Obviously a 200 brit. pound laptop would equate to
> >a $400 US laptop so that isn't quite as exciting.
> >
> >http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/
> >
> >This laptop looks like the perfect sized laptop to keep in my backpack for
> >work.  I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to connect up to the
> >public Wi-Fi at work, start a SSH tunnel, and check on this or that.. such a
> >thing would be a royal pain with my work laptop as I'd have to disconnect
> >from the work LAN, blah blah blah blah, then relocate over to the windows
> >where I can pick up the ATHD Wi-Fi.
> >
> >Anyway, just wondered if anyone had any opinions on the laptop.  Sure, a 4
> >gig flash-based HD is tiny, but it's enough to hold all my Linux tools I
> >need.


This ASUS doohickey makes a lot more sense than the Palm Folio thingy
they introduced earlier this year.  I'm definitely going to keep an
eye out for one of these.


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