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Serio IT Service Desk & Helpdesk Blog » Asus EEE 901 PC Mini Review — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:29:51 +0000

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By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:39:38 +0000

Mine doesn’t even hvae calculators never mind the next big thing in computing. They do have a massive array of wellies though, it being rural and all that.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:05:42 +0000

The price differance is often about the HDD v’s flash (8 vb 120) and the 512 ram vs 1gb.
Tescos also stock the Acers, i was in there today*

* Your tesco might not be as cool and as hip as mine!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:00:41 +0000

You’ve got to be careful of the numbers, and the description. I don’t think there is a price diff between colours for the same models. But the model numbers are pretty unclear
I’m thinking of a Linux one with 1Gb RAM and a 8 GB SSD, but that doesn’t seem to have a fixed unique number

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:16:34 +0000

My local PCWorld doesn’t have it, nor any within a 20 mile radius.

Why is the Ab £229, whereas the Aw is £299. £70 for white, seems exorbitant.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:35:12 +0000

Bob, on my Eee opening OOo takes 20-30 seconds, on the Acer at PC World it took under 5. That level of improvement in overall sluggishness would be V welcome.

I have re-emailed a couple of late paying clients with a view to a shopping trip to PCW

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:51:20 +0000

Bob thats the one I’m thinking of getting. Go and have a look at Pc World they are well neat (and basically the same price to take straight home)

The Eee is Debian based I think, but there seems some debate on where to get apps to download. I saw Xandros recommended as a source, then warnings about hosing your system with incompatible versions. Its just a bit too hard frankly,

The issue seems to be Ubuntu is less than ideal for the flash based drives.

In reality any of these disties will get more and more apps as people start using them by buying the netbooks, and the Acer is V well regarded at the mo.

By: Harlan Grove

Harlan Grove — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:23:28 +0000

Linpus is a Fedora (Red Hat) derivative, so presumably RPM-based package management. If the specific Linpus version is using fairly recent kernel and X vresions, it should be OK. Simplest way to check is to download a live CD image, burn it, then boot it and try it out.

That’s one of the key values of Linux – the ability to try out actual distributions for free on any computer capable of loading it. What a concept!

By: Bob Phillips

Bob Phillips — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:57 +0000

So how do you find out which distro is a good distro? Amazon have an ACer Aspire netbook with an 8.9″ screen, but it has Linpus Linux. Is that any good?