[plug] EEPC

[Richard Meyer]

Office Mart, Joondalup and Myers Forest Chase had them on the shelf to
play with last I saw.

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 11:34 +0800, Kai wrote:
> My cousin's getting his helicopter PPL, the lessons are $450/hour - 
> definately not cheap, aeroplane lessons are $240 or so in comparison.
> 
> PPL was fun, but the way they train us for CPL you learn soooo much more 
> about yourself and your abilities as a pilot, it's bloody hard work but 
> so much FUN ! :)
> 
> I'll have a better read into the latest EEPC, maybe read some reviews 
> and stuff later on. Don't think anyone in Broome will have any Xandros 
> units on the shelf to try in store and I'm not that desperate to drive 
> all over Perth looking for an in store demo model :P
> 
> Adon Metcalfe wrote:
> > Nah as the VP of plug I welcome pilot chitchat ;P, My boss is one (he 
> > also has a private license) and hes always complaining bout how much 
> > harder it is these days to get one with rising costs, so its awesome to 
> > see people into flying still, hehe he's been trying to convince me to go 
> > for my private license while admitting I probably couldn't afford it.
> > 
> > Also lol as for the linux eeepc, their pretty swell, I'd say as far as 
> > usability goes windows is ok with one or two apps but its multitasking 
> > isn't quite there compared to linux on low power devices (I have a 
> > friend who has both installed on his eeepc 4g, and he ends up using 
> > linux mostly just because its more responsive under load), apart from 
> > that hardware support for both is perfect and applications to do stuff 
> > on both platforms are pretty much on par (though linux does have a lot 
> > more accessible opensource/gratis software).
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Fred Janon <fjanon at yahoo.com 
> > <mailto:fjanon at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Dunno about the Linux EEPC, but I wanted to congratulate you on your
> >     commercial pilot license! It was such a joy for me to get my private
> >     one and pass the IFR written test. I wish I had enough $$$ to finish
> >     my helicopter one.
> > 
> >     Sorry about the OT stuff pluggers.
> > 
> >     Fred
> > 
> >     --- On *Thu, 7/3/08, Kai /<vk6ksj at westnet.com.au
> >     <mailto:vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>>/* wrote:
> > 
> >         From: Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au <mailto:vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>>
> >         Subject: [plug] EEPC
> >         To: plug at plug.org.au <mailto:plug at plug.org.au>
> >         Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 10:03 PM
> > 
> > 
> >         Hi everyone,
> > 
> >         Firstly, totally unrelated to Linux but a huge personal goal - I passed 
> >         my commercial flight test today, I am now a commercial pilot :D ...but 
> >         no I don't fly 737's yet, that doesn't happen for a few years :P
> > 
> > 
> >         Anyway, back at the
> >          ranch, my Uncle (who's a Microsoft shop) bought home 
> >         an EEPC running XP Home, he says it's better than the Linux equivalent, 
> >         I fail to beleive that but I haven't used the Linux equivalent... has 
> > 
> >         anyone and do you have any feedback ?
> > 
> >         Cheers
> >         Kai
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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Richard Meyer
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