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Should you buy an Asus Eee 901 PC?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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Due any day now is the Asus Eee 901, the successor to the subnotebook that did the most to kick off the cheap, yet fully useable, portable computing revolution. With so many cheap subnotebooks now on the way to Australia, is it worth taking the Eee plunge, or waiting a bit longer for more choice?

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tracyanne ·
I was talking to him about some work we need to do on his site, and he asked me if I'd bought one of the Eees. When I asked him if he was getting one he said yes, so I asked him which one, to which he replied the Linux one. Apparently he's seen one in use and really likes the Linux version.
jacog ·
And you'd be happy to know tracyanne, that Mandriva is a very good replacement distro for it. :P (cept that the battery monitor is stupidly inaccurate)
tracyanne ·
Quoting:cept that the battery monitor is stupidly inaccurate


I think that's a problem with Mandriva on every laptop I've installed it on.

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