Sometimes, Apple rule.

[Jay Vaughan]

Yeah man it's sort of true you can upgrade to a newer netbook now for  
what used to be a good nights out budget .. Bombs away on the bigger  
guns, let's see the lower priced hardware rock the box.

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ibi sum
::: top quotin' from the pocket :::

On Oct 24, 2008, at 13:16, "M-.-n" <nostromo at arkaos.net> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the extensive report. Very good to know.
>
> As for U:Remix, you might be totally right as I'm still running a  
> minimal
> 512k. I'm currently toying with the idea of getting a new one, not  
> because
> of power issue but rather because the eee keyboard hurts my wrist.  
> If so,
> I'll probably refactor my 701 as a minimal consumption server in the  
> house.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
> [mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org]On Behalf Of ibi sum
> Sent: vendredi 24 octobre 2008 13:06
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: Sometimes, Apple rule.
>
>
>> Yeah, the keyboard is the very bad part of the EEE and the Aspire's  
>> one
>> looks a lot better.
>>
>
> Its really a lot, lot better .. for me anyway.  I can write code with
> the Aspire1, whereas the EEEPC .. not so easy, or comfortable.  Last
> night I wrote 2000 lines of code with the Aspire1, and its starting to
> look like its going to be my Linux hacking/development machine for the
> next 6 months ..
>
>> How's the situation with the mouse buttons ? they have kind of a  
>> wierd
>> position.
>
> The position of the mouse buttons suck, its really a fact.  I have to
> work out what to do about this ..
>
>> And what distro do you run on it (unless you bought one with  
>> windows; arf
>> arf arf)
>
> Right now I'm putting up with the Linpus (worst distro name ever) that
> came with it, if only because I feel sorta pervy (in a good way) about
> learning yum when all my professional life these days is either
> build-from-source or .deb pkg mgmt, and to be honest I'm not finding
> it all that difficult to get over my RedHat bigotry in this instance;
> all the important stuff installed easily enough (Inkscape, dev tools,
> seq24, zynaddsubfx, sooperlooper, Audacity, etc.) and I have gotten my
> code compiled and running easily enough.  One thing I do need to chase
> down is how to get a RT- enabled kernel setup, thats a bit of a
> nuisance.  But I like having an ultra-minimal config - certainly its
> nice to be running xfce happily again, and the machine really does fly
> along at doing what I need it to do, which right now is building
> kernel modules and hacking on SVG-based user interfaces and related
> documents.
>
> One negative on the Aspire1 though: it only sees 1.5gigs of RAM, this
> is a BIOS limitation, and the BIOS appears to be pretty much orphaned
> in terms of support.  There was an upgrade recently, but it doesn't
> address the arbitrary RAM limitation, alas .. just some power
> management issues, which admittedly were good to have (longer battery
> life==good).. but I hope the RAM limit goes away, coz I don't wanna
> waste 512megs in the environment I'm using the Aspire1.
>
> Either way though, you gotta appreciate the netbook revolution that is
> pushing Linux into the hands of people who really stand to benefit
> from using it these days.  I can't tell you how pleased I am to see
> kids using netbooks, installing apps through synaptic, and having
> ultra-clean, well-maintained systems for the price of a pair of Nikes'
> .. to be honest it really makes me proud, especially when its mostly
> teenage girls telling me about the features they love at the local
> Saturn while I browse the netbook aisle, almost every week, to see
> whats new..  quite a nice thing, maybe, about living in Vienna, is
> just how computer literate the young folks seem to be.
>
>> BTW. Ubuntu remix is WAY to hungry for decent use on the 701. I  
>> really
> like
>> the concept but it's simply not made for something of that power  
>> level.
>
> Well the guy who has my EEEPC now is quite happy with it, but that
> might be because of the RAM upgrade, and actually I was helping him
> out with it a little last night and sorta lusted after its goodies
> (love the interface to be honest) again .. so I don't really agree
> with you here.  I haven't found it to be a dog, actually.  How much
> RAM you got?  2gigs in my ol' 701 and it is pretty pimp I have to say.
> No problems firing up Inkscape, a fat document or two, leaving
> Audacity open in the background, running some torrents too, etc.  The
> system load just gets managed quite nicely - though I would hate to
> see how the same levelling would work with less RAM..
>
> j.
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