[ILUG] laptops price update

[Rory Browne]

>
> First impressions:
>
> + very quick
> + good screen
> + better keyboard than eeepc
> + good wireless connectivity with wpa
> + support for sdhc media cards
>
> - mouse support is quirky, or maybe just doesn't like my giant fingers
> - os is as restricted as eeepc (so will be forcing debian onto it soon)
>


No offence, but to describe the OS on the aspire one as restricted is
horseshit. It is based on, and is no more restricted than Fedora 8. It does
have limited resources ( 512 Mb Memory, and a relatively small screen ), so
I wouldn't recommend installing KDE, but I can't really see any restriction
on it. You can install your own software, and from what I have seen so far,
you can do pretty much anything on it that you can do in Fedora 8.

Granted they have a few options disabled, to make it Aunt Tille friendly,
but nothing that you can't change once you know how, and lets face it, if
you don't know how, and can't figure out in leff than 30 minutes on google,
then you probably should stick with the default menu-provided options
anyway. Everything is there that Aunt Tille would need.

I suppose it's different strokes for different folks, but I honestly see no
need to change the distro. It works. All the hardware works. You don't have
to configure anything low level ( although you do have to reconfigure the
desktop a bit ). Changing to Debian for such a machine ( lets face it you're
not going to use this as your primary machine ) strikes me as taking a
demolition ball to a nut.