[plug] Asus Eee PC 1000H

[Michael Hunt]

Someone also mentioned JB Hi-Fi as a possible source to from memory.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Gregory Orange <
gregory.orange at metoceanengineers.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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