Evolution in Notebooks. Super Mini Laptop Asus Eee
Straight up. No, I am not selling these.
There has been big movement in the notebook world in the last few months.
Asus is one of the manufacturers that has woken up to the fact that solid state memory is gaining ground hand over fist on mechanical hard drives, and come up with a sub miniature notebook with a 4Gb memory hard drive that runs Linux, and is capable of running windows XP. One user has even installed Vista on his.
OLTPC (one latptop per child) program is using a similar principle in their green, rabbit ears, $100USD notebooks, but these are aimed only at third world students initially, and look like being more like $200USD
I wanted something that will run Linux, as I decided it was about time top learn something about it, but as I travel, and run my business from a windows notebook that I lug around, I may well install windows on mine, and give this a try.
Dick Smith NZ has them in stock, DS Australia, should be selling them before Christmas. Price $499AUD
Specificatios: ============== Display 7" CPU & Chipset Intel Mobile CPU & chipset Operating System Lunix Windows XP Compatible Communication 10/100 Mbps Ethernet WLAN WiFi 802.11b/g Memory 512Mb, DDR2 S.S.D.Storage 4GB Web-Cam 0.3 Mega Pixel Video camera Audio Hi-Definition audio CODEC, Built-in stereo speaker, Built-in microphone Battery Life 3 hrs Dimension & Weight 22.5 x 16.4 x 2.15~3.5 cm,