[plug] Asus Eee PC 1000H

[Gregory Orange]

Adam Hewitt wrote:
> My cousin is looking at getting one of these for his uni bound wife
> for christmas. Looking at the comparison charts on the asus website
> this still appears to be the best value for money, even if they did
> remove any hardware benefits from going with the Linux version. Is
> this still the consensus amongst the linux crowds (even in comparison
> to the Dell 9 or the MSI Wind or whatever)?
> 
> And on that note, does anyone know where to go about purchasing one at
> this late stage of the festive season purchasing frenzy? Office works
> have a model they call 1000XPH which seems to be the 1000H with Xp
> installed, however it also says it has an 80GB HDD whilst the Asus
> site states it should have a 160GB HDD.

I couldn't find a lot of differences which mattered to me between the 
MSI Wind, the HP Mini-Note, the Acer Aspire One and the Asus EeePC. I 
bought an EeePC 1000H, and am very pleased with it. It came with XP, I 
stuck on eee-ubuntu and haven't looked back. I paid $550 at PLE. Austin 
had them for $600 at the time.

Hmm, not listed there any more. Poke through the archives in the past 
few months - Ari had a few helpful places to look. I vaguely recall 
OfficeWorks had reasonable prices back when I was looking.

Cheers,
Greg.