<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">second the eeepc 1000h (atom+80ghd)<br>dual booting xp & linux <br>http://www.array.org/ubuntu/ works great<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 3/12/08, Gregory Orange <i><gregory.orange@metoceanengineers.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@metoceanengineers.com><br>Subject: Re: [plug] Asus Eee PC 1000H<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Received: Wednesday, 3 December, 2008, 1:44 PM<br><br><pre>Adam Hewitt wrote:<br>> My cousin is looking at getting one of these for his uni bound wife<br>> for christmas. Looking at the comparison charts on the asus website<br>> this still appears to be the best value for money, even if they did<br>> remove any hardware benefits from going with the Linux version. Is<br>> this
still the consensus amongst the linux crowds (even in comparison<br>> to the Dell 9 or the MSI Wind or whatever)?<br>> <br>> And on that note, does anyone know where to go about purchasing one at<br>> this late stage of the festive season purchasing frenzy? Office works<br>> have a model they call 1000XPH which seems to be the 1000H with Xp<br>> installed, however it also says it has an 80GB HDD whilst the Asus<br>> site states it should have a 160GB HDD.<br><br>I couldn't find a lot of differences which mattered to me between the MSI<br>Wind, the HP Mini-Note, the Acer Aspire One and the Asus EeePC. I bought an<br>EeePC 1000H, and am very pleased with it. It came with XP, I stuck on eee-ubuntu<br>and haven't looked back. I paid $550 at PLE. Austin had them for $600 at the<br>time.<br><br>Hmm, not listed there any more. Poke through the archives in the past few<br>months - Ari had a few helpful places to look. I vaguely recall
OfficeWorks had<br>reasonable prices back when I was looking.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Greg.<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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