[slackline]

Eee Shell is the answer but I'm doubting there's likely to be anywhere to prod one for a while?

Has anyone got a clue where these might pop up first?

Due to go on sale on the 15th, some places are already taking pre-orders (i.e. Amazon) (NB Shell == Eee PC 1008HA).

Keeping my eyes open, as may be getting one for the wife (if they do it with Linux on, or even if they don't, I'll just install it  )

[Paul B]

Thanks slack---line delivery time 1-2 Months... Hmmmm Very Confused still.

http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-shell-gets-unboxed-0843236/

[slackline]

One thing I'm wary of though is that it has 802.11n wireless (as many other laptops do).  The main problem with this is that the standard is yet to be ratified by the IEEE, so its subject to change, whether this is at the hardware or software level I've no idea, but it may mean that it won't work when the standard is finally ratified. 

[Paul B]

and I didn't have much luck with 'n' in my flat.. would I likely suffer the same?

[slackline]

That could actually be the route cause, but its hard to say.

Might want to check out this little beauty.  Looks good, decent size/price/spec too.  I may have changed my wife's mind for her 

[Jim]

another one, slightly cheaper due out soonish
http://www.t3.com/news/hannspree-unveils-its-hannsnote-netbook-range?=38829

[Paul B]

I'm typing this from my nice shiny new AOD150. It seems great however;

• Why do manufacturers insist on putting so much crap on a computer even before you've got hold of it?
  
  
• Its all good and well to prompt me to make a backup disc but without an optical drive thats not so simple, put one in the damn box you cheap sods!
  
  
  • (If you get the 6 cell battery, it protrudes a little more than the standard battery)
    

[Paul B]

There's a pic of the ACER D150 with the 6 cell... I'm liking it a lot and the battery life is outstanding.

[ddddyyyy]

I agree with Dylan






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[slackline]

I agree with Dylan






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[Houdini]

Insta-ban.

[Jim]

anyone used the newish eee PC 1000HE yet?

[andy_e]

Careful there Paul, you might create a temporal paradox!

[Drew]

In response to Jim's suggestion that all things Netbook should be in here rather than the MemoryBits thread, I'm linking my comment about a super cheap (£130) Acer Aspire One Netbook. I thought it was super cheap, so got one. Yes it's not got a lot of RAM, but it's pretty tidy in all other respects.

I can recommend it for the price!

[slackline]

@Drew : Installed Eeebuntu on the Acer One last night, piece of piss.

Just follow the instructions here to get the ISO (I went with Standard) onto a USB stick. 

• Back up anything on the laptop that you want to keep to an external drive, you are going to wipe the HD
• Put the USB stick in and reboot the Acer One
• Reboot the Acer One and hold down/press repeatedly F12 on boot to get into the boot menu
• Choose to boot from the USB device
• Play around a bit
• Click on "Install" (can't remember where this was, but its fairly obvious
• Go through each self-explanatory step (with one exception, see below)
• Reboot when done and restore all your data.

The one exception is the partioning of the HD.  Because the Ubuntu family (of which Eeebuntu is a member) is a binary based distribution it has 'releases' (that seem to get ridiculous names under Ubuntu, but thats by the by).  The point is that you may want to upgrade to a newer release in the future.  As with M$-Windows (which basically got the idea from *NIX systems originally) this can be facilitated by having your OS on one partition and your data on another (if the default Linpus install had been done like this then you wouldn't have had to back up your data).

My recommendation (and what I did with mine) was to reduce the current partition to 10Gb and set it to be root (which means its mounted as '/' in the pull down menu).  I left the 1Gb of Swap partition (its like page-file under M$ and is used when RAM gets full, although its painfully slow), and the remainder of the partition I set to be mounted as '/home' which is where all the User files will be saved.  Both partitions were formatted as Ext3 a journalised file system that is particularly robust and simple to recover from crashes.

Just ask if you have any questions.

[Drew]

Just ask if you have any questions.

What's the minimum size I can afford to use as a partition for the OS? I've only got the 8Gb Solid State Drive, but will be getting a SDHC card for most files to be stored on.

[Jim]

is the ssd 2.5" drive size? ie can you take it out and put in a normal laptop hard drive?

[slackline]

To be fair I very much doubt its a true SSD as even at 8Gb they come in at ~£40 minimum (typically closer to >£100), more likely its a form of Flash.

Anyway, the live CD/USB that you boot from prior to installing is ~800Mb and if you never install another application you'll be fine with a 1Gb partition for the OS (installed into '/') and leaving the rest for '/home'.

You can try and find out exactly what hardware you have by using the command 'lshw' from a terminal.  From the help page...

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DESCRIPTION
       lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration  of
       the  machine.  It  can  report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard
       configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus  speed,  etc.  on  DMI-
       capable  x86  or  IA-64  systems and on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to
       work).

If its installed then simply type 'lshw -html > hw-list.html' and you will have the file hw-list.html that you can view in a browser with exceptionally detailed information on the hardware on your system.  If its not in the default install it might be on the "live" disc that you'd be installing from, or after installation you can likely install it using the Synaptics package manager.

[slackline]

Nokia are releasing a netbook.

And it sounds like the N900 'net tablet' will help to further blur the line between computers and phones.  Looks pretty 

[lagerstarfish]

Netto have a netbook on offer for £150 at the moment - might be of interest to someone?

1.2 Hz, 7 inch screen, 30GB hd, 1GB RAM, XP bla bla bla

[tomtom]

Netto have a netbook on offer for £150 at the moment - might be of interest to someone?

1.2 Hz, 7 inch screen, 30GB hd, 1GB RAM, XP bla bla bla

I was in tesco's yesterday and they had £100 off a few netbooks...

[Jaspersharpe]

This is great. They really will be about £30 by the time I need to get one for the sprog (to break).

[lagerstarfish]

He'll only be interested if it looks like a phone, but can play CDs

[Jaspersharpe]

..........and Spongebob.

[lagerstarfish]