[TriLUG] Asus Eee PC linux laptop?

[Kevin J.]

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Kevin
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 4:51:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Asus Eee PC linux laptop?


SlashDot thinks the Medison is a scam:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/25/1519256

john mitchell

On 8/4/07, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> Interesting...I just ran across this site earlier in the week touting
> a $150 laptop.  This one is not actually available yet, either:
>
> http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/
>
> C
>
> 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.
> >
> > Greg
>
>
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