[ILUG] laptops price update

[Ivan Griffin]

I second the MSI Wind recommendation - lovely little box. Problem is that 
I don't think any distro supports the Realtek 8187 WiFi card out of the 
box - you'd be better off replacing it with something like an intel 
Pro/wireless 3945ABG for 20squids or whatever it costs...

There are Realtek drivers available but reports online are that they can 
be flakey with WPA especially.



On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Padraig Kitterick wrote:

> If you can find an MSI Wind (or 'Advent 4211' in the UK) it's a nice 
> compromise between small and usable. Oh, and cheap.
>
> Conor Wynne wrote:
>> Don't know but I tired of the eeepc (original one) quite quickly. Annoying
>> display, tiny keyboard, crap battery life.
>> The wife wants a laptop for the front room, it muct run lienux, have decent
>> battery life, dead cheap and looks the biz.
>> 
>> Any recomendations? I've already rules out a teency PC such as these.
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 10:15:46 am John Ward wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I picked up a Acer Aspire One in Curry's yesterday for €269.
>>> Why do you prefer this to the EeePC, as a matter of interest?
>>> 
>>> By the way, does anyone know if the EeePC-1000 (the Linux-only SSD model)
>>> has appeared anywhere in Dublin yet?
>>> 
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